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