Chords for John Legend & The Roots- "Little Ghetto Boy"

_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _
_ _ [Db] _ _ No [Cm] grandmothers who would tell [Fm] her mane
Sundays may heal your [Bb] plague
Simple familiar [Cm] ways
Like how she kneeled [Fm] and prayed
Willing, [Cm] master, [Fm] forgive us, I trust
[Eb] Masters had us [Gm] real afraid
[Eb] I never listened, yet I still [Fm] obeyed
I [Cm] got to see [Fm] how Philly played at such an [Cm] early age
What [Bb] my father [Eb] was into sent him to his [Fm] early grave
Then [Cm] mom [Fm] started chasing that bass like Willie [Cm] Mays
My [Bb] childhood [Cm] was all of 40 [Ab] nights and 40 days
Trouble [Cm] was my ball and [Fm] chain
Shorties would [Cm] call me names
[Bb] Humble beginnings, [Eb] but a star is what it all [Bb] became
[Cm] My journey from a [Fm] dirty hallway to the Hall of [Cm] Fame
[Bb] Music my [Eb] therapeutic way to cope with all this [Fm] pain
[Cm] Was headed for the [Fm] drain
Soaking before [Cm] the rain
Water [Bb] came [Eb] and chaos until the order [Fm] came
[Cm] I started doing [Fm] what I'm supposed to do in life
[Cm] Trying to move [Gm] out of the [Cm] dark and closer to the light
[Fm] They say if you get a chance to do it, overdo it, [Cm] right?
Tomorrow [Bb] isn't promised every [Cm] time
[Fm] You say goodnight, [Cm] know what I'm talking [Fm] about Uh, [Cm] yeah
Storming up here in Ghetto [Fm] Boy
Check it out _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ [Eb] Out
_ [Cm]
Playing [Fm] in the ghetto street _ [Cm] Yeah _ _ _
[Fm] What you gonna do when you grow [Cm] up
And have [Eb] to face _ [Fm] responsibility _ _ _ [Cm] Yeah, _ yeah _
[Ab] [Fm] Will you spend your days and [Cm] nights in a pool room _ _
[Fm] Will you sell cancer madness
[Ab] _ To the neighborhood
[Fm] _ [F] Little Ghetto Boy _
_ [Bbm] You [Eb] already know [Cm] how _ _ love life could [Fm] _ _ _
be
[Bbm] But you see _
_ _ [Cm] _ So much pain [F] and misery _ _ _ [Fm] _ Yeah, _ yeah
_ _ Little Ghetto _ Boy [Cm] Yeah
Your daddy [Fm] was blown _ away [Cm] _ Yeah, yeah
He [Fm] robbed that grocery store, [Cm] yeah
Don't you know that [Fm] was a sad, sad day
[Cm] _ Yeah, [Eb] _ _ [Bbm] yeah
_ [Eb] Oh, you're young like your [Cm] seeds of misery [Fm] and pain
_ [Bbm] The [Eb] world's a cruel place to live [Cm] in
It ain't [Fm] gonna change, [Bbm] yeah
You're [Eb] so young
[Cm] And you've got so far to [Fm] go _ _
_ _ [Bbm] Don't think you'll reach your goal, young man
[F] Don't do nothing, Ghetto Boy
_ [G] Yeah, yeah, _ [Bbm] _ yeah
[Eb] _
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_ [Fm] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ Yeah, yeah
_ Little Ghetto _ _ [Cm] Boy _ _ _
When [Fm] you become a man, _ [Cm] _ yeah _
_ [Fm] You can make things change
[Cm] _ _ _
Oh, if you [Fm] just take a _ [Cm] stand
Yeah, [Eb]
yeah
[Bbm] You've got to believe in [Eb]
yourself
_ [Cm] In all that [Fm] you do
_ [Bbm] _ You've got [Eb] to fight [Cm] to make it better, [Fm]
better
_ [Bbm] _ We [Eb] will see [Cm] how this will start
[Fm] Believe in you, Ghetto Boy
Sit [Bbm] by my _ side
Think we'll [Ab] fight to [F] get better _ _ [Fm] _ Hey, [F] yeah
_ _ [Bbm] _ Everything [Eb] has got to [Cm] get better
_ [Fm] _
_ _ [Bbm] _ Everything [Eb] has got to [Cm] _ _ [Fm] get better
Everything has got to get [Bbm] better
Everything [Eb] has got [Cm] to get better
Yeah, [Fm] _ _ [Bbm] yeah
_ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Cm] _ Don't [Fm] you know it's gonna [Bbm] get better?
[Eb] _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ [Fm] Hey, _ [Bbm] yeah
_ [Eb] Everything's gonna [Cm] get better
_ [Fm] _
Everything [Bbm] _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Cm] _ has got to get [Fm] _
_ [Bbm] better
Everything [Eb] has got to [Cm] get better
[Fm] Oh, _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Fm]
yeah
_ [Bbm] _ Everything [Eb]
has gotten [Cm] _ better
[Fm]
Oh _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Eb] _
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yeah, _ [Bbm] yeah, _ _ yeah, _ [Eb] _ _ [Db] _
yeah
Little girl, [F] _
boy
[Fm] _ _ _ _ Yeah, _ _ yeah _
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