Little Ghetto Boy Chords by Donny Hathaway

_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ This ghetto [A] boy, [C#m] _ _ _ [F#m] laying in the ghetto street.
_ [C#m] _ [B] _ _ [F#m] _ What you gonna do when you grow [C#m] up and have to [F#m] face responsibility?
_ _ _ _ _ Will you spend your days and nights in [E] a blue room?
[C#m] Will [F#m] you sell cans of [A] madness for the neighborhood [F#m] little ghetto boy?
_ [Bm] _ [E] You already know [C#m] how rough life [F#m] can be.
[Bm] Don't you see _ [E] _ so much [F#m] pain and misery?
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ Little ghetto boy, _ [E] _ _ [F#m] your daddy was blown away.
[E] _ _ He [F#m] robbed that grocery [E] store.
_ Don't you know [A] that was a sad, sad old [E] day?
_ [C] _ _ [F#m] _
[Bm] All of your young life you've [E] been such a misery [A] and [F#m] pain.
[D] _
[E] What a cruel place to live and it ain't [A] gonna [F#m] change.
[E] You're so young, [C#m] you got so [F#m] much to lose.
_ [Bm] Don't think you'll reach a goal young [F#m] man, and who will know? _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [F#m] _ _
[E] _ [F#] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [F#m] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [F#m] _
Oh, _ _ _ [E] when, [F#m] when, when you become old, [C#m] _ _ _ [E] [F#m] you can make things change.
[C#m] _ _ _ [F#m] If you just make a plan, [C#m] _ _ [C] _ [F#m] you got to believe [E] in yourself and all you'll [A] do.
When [D] _ _
[G#] things [C#m] get better, [F#m] _ _ _
[E] you'll see [C#m] how others will start [F#m] believing too.
_ [Bm] Then my son, [E] [F#m] things will start to get better.
_ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [F#m] _ _
[E] Start to get better.
[A] _ Yeah, [D] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [F#m] I said [E] everything, [C#m] _ _ [F#m] everything's got to get [Bm] better.
[E] _ _ Better.
[F#m] _ _ I believe that it [E] ain't gonna matter.
[A] _ Yeah, [D] it's gonna [E]
start to get [C#m] better.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ Start _ [F] _
_ [C#m] _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _
to get [E] better.
[F#m] Start to get better.
[E] Everything is gonna start to get better.
[F#m] _ _ _ Everything is [E] gonna start to get better.
[F#m] Yeah, [Bm] _ _ _
[G#] yeah.
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _