← more from
American Dreams
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1.50 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    All three Marvin Tate's D-Settlement albums - Partly Cloudy, The Minstrel Show, American Icons - remastered in a 3xCD box set with a book featuring an oral history of the band.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Marvin Tate's D-Settlement via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $30 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    All three Marvin Tate's D-Settlement albums - Partly Cloudy, The Minstrel Show, American Icons - remastered in a 4xLP box set with a book featuring an oral history of the band.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Marvin Tate's D-Settlement via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $75 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    All three Marvin Tate's D-Settlement albums - Partly Cloudy, The Minstrel Show, American Icons - remastered in a 4xLP box set, on clear vinyl, with a book featuring an oral history of the band.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Marvin Tate's D-Settlement via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $85 USD or more 

     

lyrics

Oh gerladdddddddddddddddd
What’sup with you man?

Ain’t no role models
In’da hood for Gerald
Ain’t no role models
In’da hood for Gerald
he don’t know, if he wants
to be a boy or a girl

Their ain’t no role models in’da hood
for Gerald

Daddy say, “Why you gotta be dat way”/
Be a man boy, act as strong
As you can. Then he gets down on his knees and pray
To a God he don’t even understand…

Father: Be a man, be somebody,
When I was age, I had thangs
Money, cars, clothes, and women
I always had women

Don’t everybody wannah be
like Mike. Dunk a ball, Fly high
in’da sky. Don’t everybody
Wannah be a Disciple, drive the CTA
or deliver’yo mail

Hey, ain’t it shame,
Some people gotta die first
before they can be free?

Free’yo mind and yo ass will follow
Free, Freeee. I wannah be free….

Free, freedom spelled backwards is freeeee

Got his head stuck
in’da oven, 350.
Say he’s gonna take a trip
to see his long, lost mother.
Don’t know if there’s a heaven or
a hell, but wherever he goes
it’s gotta be better than this BIG,
tiny world we call’da hooooood.

Mama I’m a girl
Mama, I’m a girl
Mama I’m a girl

I’m Gerald

Let’em be
Let’em be
Let’em be

credits

from Marvin Tate's D​-​Settlement, released November 4, 2022

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Marvin Tate's D-Settlement image

Marvin Tate's D-Settlement Chicago, Illinois

D-Settlement were Chicago’s best-kept secret: a trailblazing, diverse band mixing R&B, soul, punk, gospel and funk with biting wit and political commentary. Led by Marvin Tate — a poet, artist, playwright and raconteur who wore pipe cleaners in his hair — and supported by a large, dynamic cast of characters, their music was both of and ahead of its time. ... more

contact / help

Contact Marvin Tate's D-Settlement

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Marvin Tate's D-Settlement recommends:

If you like Marvin Tate's D-Settlement, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now