Lyrics Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Mayfield

Short Eyes - Freak, Freak, Free, Free, Free

Stranger man took my only daughter

'Round the candy shop, soda pop

All for just a quarter

Rememberin' the loving way she wore her hair

Her sunrise eyes, her petite size

Just want to warn you children some

Short Eyes is pusher number one

Girls, when you shake your shaggy, shaggy, beware!

Dudes when you hang out in the alley, beware!

Dirty, dirty, dirty Short Eyes

Any kind of people so disguised

Brother man will see them penalized

Sad, sick ain't no way for bail

Kinda feel like sending him to hell

Handsome man becomes an ugly freak

(Freak, freak, free, free, free)

Out just long enough for nasty treats

Living corpse wedged up in the tombs

Has to face the judgment in the room, beware

Freak, freak, free, free, free

Freak, freak, free, free, beware!

Dirty, dirty, dirty Short Eyes

Any kind of people so disguised

Brother man will see them penalized