Based on a true story. This photo of a celebration was taken on Locust Street, however, not on University Avenue.
lyrics
a robber fell six stories to the ground
a picket fence impaled his leg
that's what you get for robbing my mama
while daddy was out working hard to bring home the bread
University Avenue up in the Bronx
on the slope of one of them long Bronx hills
where everyday somebody was getting jacked up
or somebody was getting killed
it is still the case
as a baby i was being baby sat
in the room farthest from our apartment entrance
when a man came in and robbed us blind
all in all he robbed us a total of five times
they knew his face
the police don't care when you're a spic on the line
dialing 911, they're taking their sweet time
so consider us lucky or consider us not
surviving on a street that was rough and rotting and hot
nobody wants to go there
nobody wants to go back there
don't remember exactly what the headline read
i think he came out alive but remained half dead
he made one of the pages of the Daily News
and we moved into Brooklyn far away from those blues
and life went on
the way life goes on, life went on
on 2272 University Avenue
known as Dr. Martin Luther King avenue too
2272 University Avenue
on the slope of one of them long Bronx hills.
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