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Transcription help, Ike & Tina Turner - Living For The City

boll weevil View member profile	6th July 2021, 03:31 AM Post #1
New Entry Joined: 6 July 2021 Posts: 3 User: 133,042	Hi! I tried to transcribe Tina Turner's ad-lib at the end of Living For The City (Stevie Wonder wrote it and sang it first), but I can't make out some words. I want to know her words from minute 3:25 on. youtube.com / watch?v=I9yfkGRlE_c (I can't post a link. Please delete the blank spaces.) They ain't hardly got no ... They know ... Hardly a roof over their head


Popchartfreak View member profile	6th July 2021, 07:35 AM Post #2
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 18 July 2012 Posts: 22,832 User: 17,376	hard to make out, sounds like They ain't hardly got no home?


boll weevil View member profile	8th July 2021, 11:32 AM Post #3
New Entry Joined: 6 July 2021 Posts: 3 User: 133,042	I think her words are: They ain't hardly got no pause on their back Ain't no covers on their bed Hardly a roof over their head


Popchartfreak View member profile	9th July 2021, 09:24 AM Post #4
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 18 July 2012 Posts: 22,832 User: 17,376	"ain't hardly got no clothes on their back" would fit in with the original song lyrics more? (Her clothes are old, but never are they dirty)


boll weevil View member profile	10th July 2021, 05:39 PM Post #5
New Entry Joined: 6 July 2021 Posts: 3 User: 133,042	Thank you. I was wondering if the word is "poles" or "pause". But now I'm convinced that it is "pulls" (short for "pullovers").