Key: F minor
Verse 1
G#m
D#m
All the ghettos
E
C#m
around the world
G#m
D#m
E
Dig this, ghetto Fabulous Joe
Shaggy
C#m
All the children sing
Verse 2
G#m
D#m
E
F#sus4
E
I'm a ghetto child
G#m
D#m
E
I'm a ghetto child
F#sus4
E
(Check it, out)
Verse 3
G#m
there's a world out there
D#m
that I wanna see
E
There's a man that I'm
F#sus4
destined to be
E
G#m
I won't be stopped
D#m
by the ghetto streets
E
F#
I believe inside that I can't
F#sus4
E
G#m
be beat
Verse 4
D#m
This life could be a ball and chain
E
F#sus4
If you let yourself get caught in the game
G#m
I had some friends who sold
D#m
drugs for dough
E
But I don't intend to go
F#sus4
E
G#m
down that road
Verse 5
D#m
Just because I'm a ghetto child
E
F#sus4
I won't live down to your expectations
G#m
D#m
Just believe that a ghetto child
E
F#sus4
E
Can rise in the highest celebration
Verse 6
G#m
D#m
Know that I am a ghetto child
E
F#sus4
But I can see the best in me,
E
G#m
can you
D#m
E
I'm a ghetto child
C#m
All the ghettos around the world,
G#m
dig this
Verse 7
D#m
One day I'm gonna change the world
E
Make a better place for
every boy and girl
G#m
D#m
Every one in need, homeless families
E
Have a place to sleep and
F#sus4
E
food to eat
Verse 8
G#m
D#m
I?ll take every gun off the streets
E
F#sus4
So another tear won't be shed in grief
G#m
D#m
And every thug in every hood
E
I will make ?em change from
F#sus4
E
G#m
bad to good
Verse 9
D#m
I believe that it can be done
E
Gotta start somewhere
F#sus4
and I'm that one
G#m
D#m
All the children sing
E
(Yeah, yeah)
F#
F#sus4
All the children sing
E
G#m
(Yeah, yeah)
Verse 10
D#m
Just because I'm a ghetto child
E
I won't live down to your
F#sus4
G#m
expectations
D#m
Just believe that a ghetto child
E
F#sus4
E
Can rise in the highest celebration
Verse 11
G#m
D#m
Know that I am a ghetto child
E
F#sus4
E
But I can see the best in me,
G#m
can you
D#m
E
I'm a ghetto child
C#m
(Ooh, yeah, ooh)
Verse 12
G#m
Hey, yo?, look at me in
D#m
a different light
E
F#sus4
Spare me all about those stereotypes
E
G#m
Ain't no madness
D#m
that'll bring me down
E
F#sus4
Gonna take this life and
turn it around
Verse 13
G#m
That's right, the sky?s the limit,
D#m
I won't be denied
E
Ain't no stoppin? me,
F#sus4
I'm a ghetto child
G#m
D#m
And at the end when it?s said and done
E
F#sus4
We will all be singin? this
F#
G#m
ghetto song
Verse 14
D#m
I believe that it can be done
E
Gotta start somewhere
F#sus4
and I'm that one
G#m
D#m
All the children sing
E
(Yeah, yeah)
F#
F#sus4
All the children sing
E
G#m
(Yeah, yeah)
Verse 15
D#m
Just because I'm a ghetto child
E
I won't live down to your
F#sus4
E
G#m
expecta tions
D#m
Just believe that a ghetto child
E
Can rise in the highest cel
F#sus4
E
G#m
ebra tion
Verse 16
D#m
Know that I am a ghetto child
E
F#sus4
But I can see the best in me,
G#m
can you
D#m
E
F#sus4
I'm a ghetto child
E
G#m
(Let?s go to church now)
Verse 17
D#m
Just because I'm a ghetto child
E
I won't live down to your
expectations
C#m
(Take me to church now)
E
B
D#m
Just believe that a ghetto child
E
Can rise in the highest celebration
C#m
Verse 18
B
D#m
E
Know that I am a ghetto child
C#m
But I can see the be st in me, can you
E
B
E
I'm a ghetto child
(Hey, ghetto child,
F#sus4
E
G#m
oh)
Verse 19
D#m
Just because I'm a ghetto child
E
F#sus4
I won't live down to your
E
expectations
G#m
(Sing a song for me)
D#m
Just believe that a ghetto child
E
(Sing a song for me)
F#sus4
Can rise in the highest celebration
E
G#m
(Everybody sing it now, yeah)
Verse 20
D#m
Know that I am a ghetto child
E
F#sus4
But I can see the be st in me,
G#m
D#m
can you
E
I'm a ghetto child
F#sus4
E
(So I can see the best in
G#m
D#m
E
me, can you)
Verse 21
F#sus4
It?s not where you're from,
G#m
D#m
E
F#sus4
E
G#m
D#m
E
it?s where you're gonna be
F#sus4
It?s not where you're from,
E
it?s where you're gonna be
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