The Ballad Of Cradle Rob And Me

Saw Cradle playin' in the schoolyard one day

Pretty young boy-I takes him home to play

Soon we was hangin'-Venice alleyway

Robbin' the cradle-No-Cradle Rob and me

Rob and me lived on the same block

He's kinny garden

I in knee socks

He goin' play doctor over by the docks

Robbin' the cradle-No-Cradle Rob and me

Cradle's still fresh in junior high

Rob ain't so fresh at fourteen

Me, I was just the last word

Ooo have you heard the heresay

I was robbin' the cradle

No, it wasn't that way

I 'member one day back in seventy-four

When Cradle's mamma said it wasn't cute no more

I was three years too old for them to ignore

She said I was robbin' the cradle

But it was Cradle Rob and me

We hung around about a year after that

'Til Rob found another girl to put his hair in plaits

And I said, "Girl, don't you worry me

And we'll have none of that"

Robbin' the cradle-no-Cradle Rob and me

Crae's semi fresh in college now

Rob ain't so fresh at nineteen

Me, well I'm still the last word

Ooo have your heard the heresay

I was robbin' the cradle-no-it wasn't that way

Robbin' the cradle