Looking back on when I Was a little nappy headed boy
Then my only worry Was for Christmas what would be my toy
Even though we sometimes Would not get a thing
We were happy with the Joy the day would bring
>>Stevie Wonder
The long version of SW’s “Livin’ in the City” features a policeman throwing a falsely accused black man into a jail cell: “Come on, come ON, GET in that cell, n-——... God!”
Usually the radio plays the single edit. (The song has a middle part where a drug dealer plants some drugs on an unsuspecting young man; we hear sirens, and some police
confront and arrest him. He is quickly found guilty:
“The jury re-appears, having found you guilty. TEN years.”)