We're just slum kids, and we know it   And we never stood a chance   We were dragged up from the gutter   From the wrong side of the tracks      So how dare you criticize?   When you don't know what it's like   To be dragged up from the gutter   From the wrong side of the tracks      Why do rich kids get all the breaks   While the poor slum kids have to work, sweat, struggle and slave?   Why, Lord, there's so much injustice in this world?   Slum kids never stand a chance      Look at all the slum kids all around you   Oh, we never stood a chance   We were dragged up from the gutter   From the wrong side of the tracks      Why do rich kids get all the breaks   While the poor slum kids have to work, sweat, struggle and slave?   Why, Lord, there's so much injustice in this world?   Slum kids never stand a chance      Look at all the slum kids all around you   Oh, we never stood a chance   We were dragged up from the gutter, yeah   From the wrong side of the tracks      So how dare you criticize?   When you don't know what it's like   To be dragged up from the gutter   From the wrong side of the tracks