Key: F minor
Verse 1
Am
Em
All the ghettos
F
Dm
around the world
Am
Em
F
Dig this, ghetto Fabulous Joe
Shaggy
Dm
All the children sing
Verse 2
Am
Em
F
Gsus4
F
I'm a ghetto child
Am
Em
F
I'm a ghetto child
Gsus4
F
(Check it, out)
Verse 3
Am
there's a world out there
Em
that I wanna see
F
There's a man that I'm
Gsus4
destined to be
F
Am
I won't be stopped
Em
by the ghetto streets
F
G
I believe inside that I can't
Gsus4
F
Am
be beat
Verse 4
Em
This life could be a ball and chain
F
Gsus4
If you let yourself get caught in the game
Am
I had some friends who sold
Em
drugs for dough
F
But I don't intend to go
Gsus4
F
Am
down that road
Verse 5
Em
Just because I'm a ghetto child
F
Gsus4
I won't live down to your expectations
Am
Em
Just believe that a ghetto child
F
Gsus4
F
Can rise in the highest celebration
Verse 6
Am
Em
Know that I am a ghetto child
F
Gsus4
But I can see the best in me,
F
Am
can you
Em
F
I'm a ghetto child
Dm
All the ghettos around the world,
Am
dig this
Verse 7
Em
One day I'm gonna change the world
F
Make a better place for
every boy and girl
Am
Em
Everyone in need, homeless families
F
Have a place to sleep and
Gsus4
F
food to eat
Verse 8
Am
Em
I?ll take every gun off the streets
F
Gsus4
So another tear won't be shed in grief
Am
Em
And every thug in every hood
F
I will make ?em change from
Gsus4
F
Am
bad to good
Verse 9
Em
I believe that it can be done
F
Gotta start somewhere
Gsus4
and I'm that one
Am
Em
All the children sing
F
(Yeah, yeah)
G
Gsus4
All the children sing
F
Am
(Yeah, yeah)
Verse 10
Em
Just because I'm a ghetto child
F
I won't live down to your
Gsus4
Am
expectations
Em
Just believe that a ghetto child
F
Gsus4
F
Can rise in the highest celebration
Verse 11
Am
Em
Know that I am a ghetto child
F
Gsus4
F
But I can see the best in me,
Am
can you
Em
F
I'm a ghetto child
Dm
(Ooh, yeah, ooh)
Verse 12
Am
Hey, yo?, look at me in
Em
a different light
F
Gsus4
Spare me all about those stereotypes
F
Am
Ain't no madness
Em
that'll bring me down
F
Gsus4
Gonna take this life and
turn it around
Verse 13
Am
That's right, the sky?s the limit,
Em
I won't be denied
F
Ain't no stoppin? me,
Gsus4
I'm a ghetto child
Am
Em
And at the end when it?s said and done
F
Gsus4
We will all be singin? this
G
Am
ghetto song
Verse 14
Em
I believe that it can be done
F
Gotta start somewhere
Gsus4
and I'm that one
Am
Em
All the children sing
F
(Yeah, yeah)
G
Gsus4
All the children sing
F
Am
(Yeah, yeah)
Verse 15
Em
Just because I'm a ghetto child
F
I won't live down to your
Gsus4
F
Am
expecta tions
Em
Just believe that a ghetto child
F
Can rise in the highest cel
Gsus4
F
Am
ebra tion
Verse 16
Em
Know that I am a ghetto child
F
Gsus4
But I can see the best in me,
Am
can you
Em
F
Gsus4
I'm a ghetto child
F
Am
(Let?s go to church now)
Verse 17
Em
Just because I'm a ghetto child
F
I won't live down to your
expectations
Dm
(Take me to church now)
F
C
Em
Just believe that a ghetto child
F
Can rise in the highest celebration
Dm
Verse 18
C
Em
F
Know that I am a ghetto child
Dm
But I can see the be st in me, can you
F
C
F
I'm a ghetto child
(Hey, ghetto child,
Gsus4
F
Am
oh)
Verse 19
Em
Just because I'm a ghetto child
F
Gsus4
I won't live down to your
F
expectations
Am
(Sing a song for me)
Em
Just believe that a ghetto child
F
(Sing a song for me)
Gsus4
Can rise in the highest celebration
F
Am
(Everybody sing it now, yeah)
Verse 20
Em
Know that I am a ghetto child
F
Gsus4
But I can see the be st in me,
Am
Em
can you
F
I'm a ghetto child
Gsus4
F
(So I can see the best in
Am
Em
F
me, can you)
Verse 21
Gsus4
It?s not where you're from,
Am
Em
F
Gsus4
F
Am
Em
F
it?s where you're gonna be
Gsus4
It?s not where you're from,
F
it?s where you're gonna be
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