In the Ghetto Chords by Elvis Presley

[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ As the snow fly, _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb]
[Dm] on a cold and gray Chicago morning, [Eb] a poor little baby [F] child is born
[Bb] in the ghetto, _ _ in the ghetto, _ and his mama cry, _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] cause if there's one thing that she don't
need [Eb] is another [F] hungry mouth to feed [Bb] in the ghetto, _ in the ghetto.
[Eb] [F] People don't you understand, the child [Eb] needs a helping [Bb] hand, [Eb] he'll grow to be [F] an angry
[Bb] young man someday.
_ [F] Take a look at you and me, [Eb] are we too blind [Bb] to see?
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Do we [Dm] simply turn our heads [Cm] and look the [F] other way?
_ [Bb] Well the [Gm] world _ [Bb] turns, _ _ [Dm] and a hungry little boy with a runny nose [Eb] plays in the street
as [F] the cold [Bb] wind blows in the ghetto, _ _ in the ghetto, _ and his hunger burns. _ _ _
_ [Dm] So he starts to roam the streets at [Eb] night and he learns how to steal and he [F] learns how
to [Bb] fight in the ghetto, _ in the ghetto.
_ _ [F] Then one night in [Eb] desperation the young man [Bb] breaks away, [Eb] he buys a [Dm] gun, he steals a car,
[Cm] tries to run [F] but he don't get far and his [Bb] mama cries.
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[Bb] _ _ _ [D] As the crowd gathers round an angry young man [Eb] face down in the street [F] with a gun in
his [Bb] hand in the ghetto, _ in the ghetto, and as her young man dies in the ghetto, _ in the
[Dm] On a cold and grey Chicago morning [Eb] another little baby [F] child is born [Bb] in the ghetto, _ in
the ghetto, _ and his mama [Eb] cries [Bb] in the ghetto, _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] [Bb] in the ghetto. _ _ _ _
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