It’s SteelerNation! Everyone’s all Black and Yellow or feeling down about Silver these days. So, here’s your post-game show, “Competition” and “If My Neighborhood Were a Sports Team” created for boys and girls… let me know what you think and EDUCATORS, contact Dr. Goddess for your free copy!
If My Neighborhood Were a Sports Team
by Dr. Goddess
Go hoodies, Go hoodies, Go!
Go hoodies, Go hoodies, Go!
Go hoodies, Go hoodies, Go!
Go hoodies, Go hoodies, Gooooooooo!
If my neighborhood were a sports team
All of our school playbooks would be updated
And all of our teachers would huddle together
and evaluate the game plan to get us edumucated
If my neighborhood were a sports team
Whenever gang members got into a fight
and before it got too hot
They would have to go into a penalty box,
so no one would get shot
If my neighborhood were a sports team
We would engage in healthy competition
And anybody who got sick
would get immediate medical attention
If my neighborhood were a sports team
We would have special drinks just for our brains
Even if it was really water just the same
If my neighborhood were a sports team
We would all have school uniforms
so everybody could look nice and clean
And you wouldn’t be able to tell
which millionaire from the next
So nobody would have low self-esteem
If my neighborhood were a sports team
And we had a good study hall plan
We would be able to dunk the teacher
every time we passed the State exams
If my neighborhood were a sports team
Anybody that tried to make an illegal pass at a younger player
Would have the adult referees blowing their whistles louder
And the punishment would be that much greater
If my neighborhood were a sports team
Every Sunday we would do the wave
And everybody would stand up and cheer
And be smiling and be happy
That their neighbors were near
If my neighborhood were a sports team
People would come around
with cheap boxes of food
And make sure everyone got fed
if they wanted to
If my neighborhood were a sports team
Anybody that ate and didn’t clean up
after themselves in the kitchen
Would be blocked from further admission
If my neighborhood were a sports team
Our council of elders would help
call the shots from up top
And the younger players could see
there was no attack that they couldn’t stop
If my neighborhood were a sports team
Our best defense would be on the offensive
We would make our community the best place to come and live
And everybody would be a star
And everybody would get a chance to go far
And anybody who was behind
Would get a chance to pull us up from the rear
We’d do the wave and cheer!
Then we would laugh and scream!
Yeahhhh!!!
If my neighborhood were a sports team
If these streets were kept clean
If I felt this safe from the obscene
If my neighborhood were a sports team
And I wasn’t always under attack
If my neighborhood were a sports team
There’s no way we wouldn’t stay on track!
Thank you!
Go hoodies, Go hoodies, Go!
Go hoodies, Go hoodies, Go!
Go hoodies, Go hoodies, Go!
Go hoodies, Go hoodies, Gooooooooo!
© Dr. Goddess June 2007 (excerpt from “Dr. Goddess Goes to Jail” usually performed by “four little girls”) All Rights Reserved
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