In The Ghetto Chords by Candi Staton

[Bb] [Eb] .
[Bb] [Eb] .
[Bb] As the snow [Eb] .
[Bb] flies, on [F] a cold and gray Chicago [Eb] morning, a little [F] baby child is [Bb] born, in the.
ghetto, in the ghetto.
And his mama cries, cause [Dm] if there's one thing that she don't [Eb] need, it's another little [F] hungry.
mouth to [Bb] feed, in the ghetto, in the ghetto.
[F] People don't you understand, [Eb] child needs a help, or here by the [F] penis, .
[Bb] [F] take a look at.
you and me, are [Eb] we too blind [Bb] to see, [Eb] or do we [Dm] simply turn our [Cm] heads and look the other [Bbm] way.
[F] [Bb] .
[Eb] Well the world [Bb] turns, [Eb] and [Dm] a hungry little boy with a runny [Eb] nose, plays in [F] the street.
as the cold wind [Bb] blows, [Eb] in the ghetto, [Bb] in the ghetto.
And his hunger burns, so [F] he starts to roam the street at [Eb] night, he learns how to [F] steal.
and he learns how [Bb] to fight, [Eb] in the ghetto, [Bb] in the ghetto.
[F] And then one night in [Eb] desperation, the young man [Bb] [Eb] .
[F] steals a [Cm] car, tries to [F] run, but he don't get far.
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[Bb] And his mama cries, [Gm] .
[Dm] as a crowd yells [Bb] around an angry young [Eb] man face down in the [F] street.
with a gun in his [Bb] hand, in the ghetto, in the ghetto.
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And as her young man dies, [Cm].
[Dm] on a cold and gray [Bb] Chicago [Eb] morn, another little [F] baby child is.
born, in the ghetto, [Bb] .
ghetto.
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[Eb] [Bb] And his [Eb] mama [Bb].
cries, in the ghetto.
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