Chords for Carola - In The Ghetto

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[Eb] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _
_ As the snow [Eb] _ _ [Bb] flies [Eb] _ [Bb] [Dm] On a cold and gray Chicago [Eb] morning
A poor little baby [F] child is [Bb] born in the ghetto
And _ _ _ _ his mama _ _ cries
[Dm] Cause if there's one thing that you don't [Eb] need
It's another little [F] hungry mouth to [Bb] feed in the ghetto
_ In the ghetto
[Eb] _ [F] People don't you understand
The [Eb] child needs the [Bb] help
[Eb] Forget about [F] being every young man [Bb] someday
Take a [F] look at you and me
Are you [Eb] new here to [Bb] see
[Eb] Do we simply [Dm] turn our heads [Cm] and look the [F] other way
_ [Eb] When [Bb] the [Gm] world turns
[Bb] _ And [F] a hungry little boy with a runny [Eb] nose
Plays in the [G] street at the coal wind [Bb] burn in the ghetto _
In the ghetto
_ And his hunger [Eb] burns
[Bb] _ _ _ [Dm] So he starts to roam the streets at night
[Eb] And he learns how to steal [F] and he learns how to fight [Bb] in the ghetto _
In the ghetto
_ [F] And then one night in [Eb] desperation the young man breaks [Bb] away
[Eb] He thought he's gone, [Dm] _ [Cm]
he's done, but [F] he don't get far
And his [Bb] mama [Eb] cries
_ [Bb] _ _ In [C]
[Dm] the ghetto
And this young woman, a young man, [Eb] stands down in the street [F] with a gun
And he's standing [Bb] in the ghetto
In the ghetto
_ And as her young man _ [Eb] [Bb] dies _ _
[Dm] In the cold and gray Chicago [Eb] morning
Another little [F] baby child is born in [Bb] the ghetto
_ In the ghetto _
_ _ _ And _ _ _ _ his mama cries
In the ghetto
In the ghetto
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _
Take _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _
a [F] look at you and me
Are [Eb] _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] you new here to see
Do we simply [Dm] turn our heads and [Cm] look the other [F] way
_ _ _ And [G] _
_ _ [Bb] his mama _ [Eb] cries
[Bb] _ _ In the ghetto
_ [Eb] In [Bb] the ghetto
_ His mama [Eb] cries _
[Bb] _ In the ghetto
[Eb] In [Bb] the ghetto _ _ _ _ _ _
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