You're a fish out of the water

On the wrong side of the tracks

Gather up the boys

To come and take your back

We stand all together

Against the opposed

We'll die for our brethren

That we have chose

On the wrong side of the tracks

On the wrong side of the tracks

Education

War in the streets

Catch one suck

and he gets beat

What you see

Is what you get

Soft, phony suckers

Will soon meet their end

On the wrong side of the tracks

On the wrong side of the tracks

It didn't take you long

to hear me sing the song

Cuz I'm the bad mother from the wrong

Side of the tracks

Yo! Hey I'm from around the way

You'd better not stray on the wrong

Side of the tracks

Ducking from the 5-0

Didn't know where to go

Never should have stepped on the wrong

Side of the tracks

Hey! yo cuz I'm good to go

I gotta get back from the wrong

Side of the tracks

Chorus:

Across the tracks

No one takes your back

Across the tracks

Across the tracks,

No one takes your back

Across your back

The boys in the gang

want to see me hang

I had my bells rang on the wrong

Side of the tracks

Strapped - a broken pact

Caught in a trap on the wrong

Side of the tracks

Wrong or right I had to fight

I ran for daylight to the right

Side of the tracks

A lesson to learn

when the tables are turned

You might get burned on the wrong

Side of the tracks