Chords for Too Short - The Ghetto

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_ Talking [Bm] about the ghetto
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_ _ Funky [Bm] funky ghetto _ _ _
_ _ Trying to [Bm] survive
_ [E] _
Trying to stay alive No ghetto _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] No ghetto
Talking [E] about the ghetto
_ [F#m] _ No ghetto
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_ _ [Bm] _ No ghetto
Funky [E] funky ghetto
[Bm] Even though the streets are buff and lights burned [E] out
Dope fiends die with a [Bm] pipe in their mouth
Old school buddies not doing it [E] right
Every day it's the same and it's the [Bm] same every night
I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that [E] fool
If he played me close and tried [D] to test my [Bm] cool
Every day I wonder if this how I [E] die
Only thing I know is how [Bm] to survive
There's only one rule in the real world
[E] And that's to take care of you, only [Bm] you and yours
Keep dealing with the hard times day after [E] day
Might deal me some dope but then [Bm] crime don't pay
Black man trying to break in my house [E] again
Thought he got off the dope doing [Bm] time in the pen
Even though my brothers do me just like [E] that
I get a lot of love so I'm [Bm] giving it back
_ Talking [E] about the ghetto
_ _ [Bm] _ _ Funky [E] funky ghetto
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [E] Trying to live our [Bm] lives
_ _ _ [E] No ghetto
Talking about the [Bm] ghetto
So just peep the game and don't call it [E] crap
I got a lot of kids to me like this [Bm] one hard rap
Even though my sister smoke crack [E] cocaine
She was nine months pregnant, ain't [F#m] nothing changed
Six hundred million on the football [E] team
And her baby died like a [Bm] dope fiend
The story I tell is so [E] incomplete
Five kids in the house, no [Bm] food to eat
Don't look at me and don't ask me [E] why
Mama's next door [Bm] getting hot
Even though she's got five miles to [E] feed
She'd rather spend her money on [Bm] her HIT
I always tell the truth about things like [E] this
I wonder if the mayor [Bm] overlooked that list
Instead of adding to the task force, send some [E] help
Waiting on him, I better [Bm] help myself
Housing Authority and the [E] OPD
All these guns just [A] to handle [Bm] me and the ghetto
People [E] are dying
[Bm] No ghetto
Children [E] are _ crying
[Bm] No ghetto
_ [E] Don't have enough to [D] eat
No ghetto
Don't even have [E]
shoes on [D] there No [Bm] ghetto
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_ [Bm] Even though they put us down and call us animals
[E] We make real big [Bm] bank and buy brand new clothes
Drive fancy cars, make love to [E] stars
Never really seeing just [D] who we are
We use alias names like too short
[E]
Sell you stuff you might [Bm] kill for
Young kids grow up and that's all they [E] know
Didn't teach him in school, now he's [Bm] slinging dope
Only thing he knows is how to [E] survive
But will he kill another brother
[Bm] Before he dies in the ghetto
You keep one eye [E] open all day long
Just [Bm] hoping and hoping
You pay your bills and not drink too [E] much
Then the problems of life you'll be [D] throwing [Bm] up Like me
But you don't [E] see 10 years from now
Where [Bm] will you be?
No ghetto
_ [E] Trying to get out of the [Bm] ghetto No ghetto
_ [E] But I got no place to [F#m] go No ghetto
Trying [E] to survive in the heart of the [Bm] ghetto No ghetto
Cause that's [E] the only place that [Bm] I know
So much game in a too short [E] rap
Can't be white and whites [D] can't be [Bm] black
Why you wanna act like someone [E] else?
All you gotta do is just [Bm] be yourself
We're all the same color underneath
[E] Short doggers in the house you better [D] listen to [Bm] me
Never be ashamed of what you [E] are
Proud to be black, stand [Bm] tall and hard
Even though some people give you no [E] respect
Be intelligent when you [Bm] put them in check
Cause when you're ignorant you get treated that [E] way
And when they throw you in jail you got [F#m] nothing to say
So if you don't listen it's not my [E] fault
I'll be getting paid and you'll be [Bm] paying the cost
Sitting in the jailhouse running your [E] mouth
While me and my people try to [Bm] get out The ghetto
Talking [E] about the ghetto
Talking about [Bm] the ghetto The ghetto
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Talking about the ghetto
[Bm] The ghetto
Trying [E] _
to survive
_ [Bm] The ghetto
_ [E] Trying to stay [Bm] alive The ghetto
Talking [E] about the ghetto
Funk and [Bm] funk and catch up The ghetto
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Got no [Bm] place else to go The ghetto
Talking [E] about the ghetto
[Bm] Trying to stay alive
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