Soldier (Acapella) Lyrics

So you done, you done your work

Yeah, I'm sitting here with your grandson

Mama

What's up, what's happening, honey

What's cooking

Oh, nothing much

I gotta, I gotta tell you something

Then I got a question to ask you

Okay

Yeah, so I'm working right now, Mama

And I just wanted to, uh, tell you, thank you for having your daughter

You know, cause without her, I wouldn't be who I am today

You know, she never quit on me

She always, you know, pushing me forward

You really raised a great, great daughter

And she's an amazing mother

Right

I'm glad to hear

Yes, yes, so

Very glad to hear

Are you proud of your daughter, how far she came

Yes

That girl is alright

You see she leave Baltimore and gone down there

I would never do that

Mm-hmm

But she, she know what she's doing

Mm-hmm, single mother holding it, holding it down for years

Doing it by herself

You know, we're a little bit out from you and all that stuff

But she been holding it down for years

Yes, I was too, with five

You forget that

I remember

But I'm talking about your daughter

And you did a daggone great job raising us, too

With five, honey, five

But I'm glad she, I'm glad she did that

Mm-hmm

I'm really glad

Oh, thanks, Ma

I'm proud of her, um Ian

You proud of Ian, Ma

Huh

You proud of Ian

Yes, I'm proud of Ian, too

Aw

Thank you, Mama, I appreciate that

My grandmother

He don't do anything, just quiet, him just stay home and he just do what you have to do

Yes, yes

Don't go, it don't make no trouble

All right, thank you, Mama

I love you, and hopefully I'll see you soon

Okay, baby

All right

All right, Mama

What you say, Ma

What you say, Ma

Woah Woah Woah Uh

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Uh Uh

Woah Woah Woah Uh

I used to work a nine-to-five, it was hard to survive

But I had money on my mind, I had to hustle and grind

And we done came from hard times, sharing meals with my moms

And I'm from Baltimore City, seeing murders and crimes

But I'm a soldier

But I'm a soldier

I thought I told ya

Thought I told ya

That I'm a soldier

That I'm a soldier

I thought I told ya

I'm like do u remember me

I grew up where them killas be

A couple friends dead or the locked in the penitentiary

My mother she a queen single mother on her own

And my mother always held it down and she did it all alone

And we ain't have it back then

She kept food on my plate

I ate baloney, TV dinners, hot pockets, ain't no steak

What you know about bologna with the tape around it

Boiled hot dogs with some ketchup put some bread around it.

Rip my nigga Bruce he was standing on the block

He was trappin on the A, the next day he got shot

What you know about that smell when u walk inside your spot

Mouse traps around the house you can't find it so it rot

I thought I told ya

I thought I told ya

That I'm a soldier

That I'm a soldier

I thought I told ya

I thought I told ya

That I'm a soldier

That I'm a soldier

I used to work a 9 to 5, It was hard to survive

But I had money on my mine, I had to hustle and grind

And we done came from hard times sharing meals with my moms

And I'm from Baltimore city seeing murders and crimes

But I'm a soldier, ah ah

I thought I told ya

I thought I told ya, ah

That I'm a soldier

That I'm a soldier, ah ah

I thought I told ya

I thought I told ya