Key: F minor
Verse 1
F#m
C#m
All the ghettos
D
Bm
around the world
F#m
C#m
D
Dig this, ghetto Fabulous Joe
Shaggy
Bm
All the children sing
Verse 2
F#m
C#m
D
Esus4
D
I'm a ghetto child
F#m
C#m
D
I'm a ghetto child
Esus4
D
(Check it, out)
Verse 3
F#m
there's a world out there
C#m
that I wanna see
D
There's a man that I'm
Esus4
destined to be
D
F#m
I won't be stopped
C#m
by the ghetto streets
D
E
I believe inside that I can't
Esus4
D
F#m
be beat
Verse 4
C#m
This life could be a ball and chain
D
Esus4
If you let yourself get caught in the game
F#m
I had some friends who sold
C#m
drugs for dough
D
But I don't intend to go
Esus4
D
F#m
down that road
Verse 5
C#m
Just because I'm a ghetto child
D
Esus4
I won't live down to your expectations
F#m
C#m
Just believe that a ghetto child
D
Esus4
D
Can rise in the highest celebration
Verse 6
F#m
C#m
Know that I am a ghetto child
D
Esus4
But I can see the best in me,
D
F#m
can you
C#m
D
I'm a ghetto child
Bm
All the ghettos around the world,
F#m
dig this
Verse 7
C#m
One day I'm gonna change the world
D
Make a better place for
every boy and girl
F#m
C#m
Every one in need, homeless families
D
Have a place to sleep and
Esus4
D
food to eat
Verse 8
F#m
C#m
I?ll take every gun off the streets
D
Esus4
So another tear won't be shed in grief
F#m
C#m
And every thug in every hood
D
I will make ?em change from
Esus4
D
F#m
bad to good
Verse 9
C#m
I believe that it can be done
D
Gotta start somewhere
Esus4
and I'm that one
F#m
C#m
All the children sing
D
(Yeah, yeah)
E
Esus4
All the children sing
D
F#m
(Yeah, yeah)
Verse 10
C#m
Just because I'm a ghetto child
D
I won't live down to your
Esus4
F#m
expectations
C#m
Just believe that a ghetto child
D
Esus4
D
Can rise in the highest celebration
Verse 11
F#m
C#m
Know that I am a ghetto child
D
Esus4
D
But I can see the best in me,
F#m
can you
C#m
D
I'm a ghetto child
Bm
(Ooh, yeah, ooh)
Verse 12
F#m
Hey, yo?, look at me in
C#m
a different light
D
Esus4
Spare me all about those stereotypes
D
F#m
Ain't no madness
C#m
that'll bring me down
D
Esus4
Gonna take this life and
turn it around
Verse 13
F#m
That's right, the sky?s the limit,
C#m
I won't be denied
D
Ain't no stoppin? me,
Esus4
I'm a ghetto child
F#m
C#m
And at the end when it?s said and done
D
Esus4
We will all be singin? this
E
F#m
ghetto song
Verse 14
C#m
I believe that it can be done
D
Gotta start somewhere
Esus4
and I'm that one
F#m
C#m
All the children sing
D
(Yeah, yeah)
E
Esus4
All the children sing
D
F#m
(Yeah, yeah)
Verse 15
C#m
Just because I'm a ghetto child
D
I won't live down to your
Esus4
D
F#m
expecta tions
C#m
Just believe that a ghetto child
D
Can rise in the highest cel
Esus4
D
F#m
ebra tion
Verse 16
C#m
Know that I am a ghetto child
D
Esus4
But I can see the best in me,
F#m
can you
C#m
D
Esus4
I'm a ghetto child
D
F#m
(Let?s go to church now)
Verse 17
C#m
Just because I'm a ghetto child
D
I won't live down to your
expectations
Bm
(Take me to church now)
D
A
C#m
Just believe that a ghetto child
D
Can rise in the highest celebration
Bm
Verse 18
A
C#m
D
Know that I am a ghetto child
Bm
But I can see the be st in me, can you
D
A
D
I'm a ghetto child
(Hey, ghetto child,
Esus4
D
F#m
oh)
Verse 19
C#m
Just because I'm a ghetto child
D
Esus4
I won't live down to your
D
expectations
F#m
(Sing a song for me)
C#m
Just believe that a ghetto child
D
(Sing a song for me)
Esus4
Can rise in the highest celebration
D
F#m
(Everybody sing it now, yeah)
Verse 20
C#m
Know that I am a ghetto child
D
Esus4
But I can see the be st in me,
F#m
C#m
can you
D
I'm a ghetto child
Esus4
D
(So I can see the best in
F#m
C#m
D
me, can you)
Verse 21
Esus4
It?s not where you're from,
F#m
C#m
D
Esus4
D
F#m
C#m
D
it?s where you're gonna be
Esus4
It?s not where you're from,
D
it?s where you're gonna be
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