Key: F minor
Verse 1
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All the ghettos
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around the world
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Dig this, ghetto Fabulous Joe
Shaggy
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All the children sing
Verse 2
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Dbsus4
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I'm a ghetto child
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I'm a ghetto child
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(Check it, out)
Verse 3
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there's a world out there
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that I wanna see
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There's a man that I'm
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destined to be
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I won't be stopped
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by the ghetto streets
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I believe inside that I can't
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be beat
Verse 4
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This life could be a ball and chain
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Dbsus4
If you let yourself get caught in the game
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I had some friends who sold
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drugs for dough
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But I don't intend to go
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down that road
Verse 5
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Just because I'm a ghetto child
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Dbsus4
I won't live down to your expectations
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Just believe that a ghetto child
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Can rise in the highest celebration
Verse 6
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Know that I am a ghetto child
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But I can see the best in me,
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can you
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I'm a ghetto child
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All the ghettos around the world,
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dig this
Verse 7
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One day I'm gonna change the world
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Make a better place for
every boy and girl
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Every one in need, homeless families
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Have a place to sleep and
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food to eat
Verse 8
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I?ll take every gun off the streets
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So another tear won't be shed in grief
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And every thug in every hood
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I will make ?em change from
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bad to good
Verse 9
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I believe that it can be done
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Gotta start somewhere
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and I'm that one
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All the children sing
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(Yeah, yeah)
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All the children sing
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(Yeah, yeah)
Verse 10
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Just because I'm a ghetto child
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I won't live down to your
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expectations
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Just believe that a ghetto child
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B
Can rise in the highest celebration
Verse 11
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Know that I am a ghetto child
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But I can see the best in me,
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can you
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I'm a ghetto child
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(Ooh, yeah, ooh)
Verse 12
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Hey, yo?, look at me in
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a different light
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Dbsus4
Spare me all about those stereotypes
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Ain't no madness
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that'll bring me down
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Gonna take this life and
turn it around
Verse 13
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That's right, the sky?s the limit,
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I won't be denied
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Ain't no stoppin? me,
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I'm a ghetto child
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And at the end when it?s said and done
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We will all be singin? this
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ghetto song
Verse 14
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I believe that it can be done
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Gotta start somewhere
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and I'm that one
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All the children sing
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(Yeah, yeah)
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All the children sing
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(Yeah, yeah)
Verse 15
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Just because I'm a ghetto child
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I won't live down to your
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expecta tions
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Just believe that a ghetto child
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Can rise in the highest cel
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ebra tion
Verse 16
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Know that I am a ghetto child
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But I can see the best in me,
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can you
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I'm a ghetto child
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(Let?s go to church now)
Verse 17
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Just because I'm a ghetto child
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I won't live down to your
expectations
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(Take me to church now)
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Just believe that a ghetto child
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Can rise in the highest celebration
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Verse 18
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Know that I am a ghetto child
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But I can see the be st in me, can you
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I'm a ghetto child
(Hey, ghetto child,
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oh)
Verse 19
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Just because I'm a ghetto child
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I won't live down to your
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expectations
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(Sing a song for me)
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Just believe that a ghetto child
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(Sing a song for me)
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Can rise in the highest celebration
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(Everybody sing it now, yeah)
Verse 20
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Know that I am a ghetto child
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But I can see the be st in me,
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can you
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I'm a ghetto child
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(So I can see the best in
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me, can you)
Verse 21
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It?s not where you're from,
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it?s where you're gonna be
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It?s not where you're from,
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it?s where you're gonna be
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