Ginny Pallante - The Ballad Of Cradle Rob And Me lyrics

Saw Cradle playin' in the schoolyard one day Pretty young boy-I takes him home to play Soon we was hangin'-Venice alleyway Robbin' the cradle-No-Cradle Rob and me Rob and me lived on the same block He's kinny garden I in knee socks He goin' play doctor over by the docks Robbin' the cradle-No-Cradle Rob and me Cradle's still fresh in junior high Rob ain't so fresh at fourteen Me, I was just the last word Ooo have you heard the heresay I was robbin' the cradle No, it wasn't that way I 'member one day back in seventy-four When Cradle's mamma said it wasn't cute no more I was three years too old for them to ignore She said I was robbin' the cradle But it was Cradle Rob and me We hung around about a year after that 'Til Rob found another girl to put his hair in plaits And I said, "Girl, don't you worry me And we'll have none of that" Robbin' the cradle-no-Cradle Rob and me Crae's semi fresh in college now Rob ain't so fresh at nineteen Me, well I'm still the last word Ooo have your heard the heresay I was robbin' the cradle-no-it wasn't that way Robbin' the cradle