Key: F minor
Verse 1
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Fm
All the ghettos
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Ebm
around the world
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Fm
Gb
Dig this, ghetto Fabulous Joe
Shaggy
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All the children sing
Verse 2
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Fm
Gb
Absus4
Gb
I'm a ghetto child
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Fm
Gb
I'm a ghetto child
Absus4
Gb
(Check it, out)
Verse 3
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there's a world out there
Fm
that I wanna see
Gb
There's a man that I'm
Absus4
destined to be
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Bbm
I won't be stopped
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by the ghetto streets
Gb
Ab
I believe inside that I can't
Absus4
Gb
Bbm
be beat
Verse 4
Fm
This life could be a ball and chain
Gb
Absus4
If you let yourself get caught in the game
Bbm
I had some friends who sold
Fm
drugs for dough
Gb
But I don't intend to go
Absus4
Gb
Bbm
down that road
Verse 5
Fm
Just because I'm a ghetto child
Gb
Absus4
I won't live down to your expectations
Bbm
Fm
Just believe that a ghetto child
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Absus4
Gb
Can rise in the highest celebration
Verse 6
Bbm
Fm
Know that I am a ghetto child
Gb
Absus4
But I can see the best in me,
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Bbm
can you
Fm
Gb
I'm a ghetto child
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All the ghettos around the world,
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dig this
Verse 7
Fm
One day I'm gonna change the world
Gb
Make a better place for
every boy and girl
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Fm
Every one in need, homeless families
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Have a place to sleep and
Absus4
Gb
food to eat
Verse 8
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Fm
I?ll take every gun off the streets
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Absus4
So another tear won't be shed in grief
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Fm
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
Fm
I believe that it can be done
Gb
Gotta start somewhere
Absus4
and I'm that one
Bbm
Fm
All the children sing
Gb
(Yeah, yeah)
Ab
Absus4
All the children sing
Gb
Bbm
(Yeah, yeah)
Verse 10
Fm
Just because I'm a ghetto child
Gb
I won't live down to your
Absus4
Bbm
expectations
Fm
Just believe that a ghetto child
Gb
Absus4
Gb
Can rise in the highest celebration
Verse 11
Bbm
Fm
Know that I am a ghetto child
Gb
Absus4
Gb
But I can see the best in me,
Bbm
can you
Fm
Gb
I'm a ghetto child
Ebm
(Ooh, yeah, ooh)
Verse 12
Bbm
Hey, yo?, look at me in
Fm
a different light
Gb
Absus4
Spare me all about those stereotypes
Gb
Bbm
Ain't no madness
Fm
that'll bring me down
Gb
Absus4
Gonna take this life and
turn it around
Verse 13
Bbm
That's right, the sky?s the limit,
Fm
I won't be denied
Gb
Ain't no stoppin? me,
Absus4
I'm a ghetto child
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Fm
And at the end when it?s said and done
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Absus4
We will all be singin? this
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Bbm
ghetto song
Verse 14
Fm
I believe that it can be done
Gb
Gotta start somewhere
Absus4
and I'm that one
Bbm
Fm
All the children sing
Gb
(Yeah, yeah)
Ab
Absus4
All the children sing
Gb
Bbm
(Yeah, yeah)
Verse 15
Fm
Just because I'm a ghetto child
Gb
I won't live down to your
Absus4
Gb
Bbm
expecta tions
Fm
Just believe that a ghetto child
Gb
Can rise in the highest cel
Absus4
Gb
Bbm
ebra tion
Verse 16
Fm
Know that I am a ghetto child
Gb
Absus4
But I can see the best in me,
Bbm
can you
Fm
Gb
Absus4
I'm a ghetto child
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Bbm
(Let?s go to church now)
Verse 17
Fm
Just because I'm a ghetto child
Gb
I won't live down to your
expectations
Ebm
(Take me to church now)
Gb
Db
Fm
Just believe that a ghetto child
Gb
Can rise in the highest celebration
Ebm
Verse 18
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Fm
Gb
Know that I am a ghetto child
Ebm
But I can see the be st in me, can you
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Db
Gb
I'm a ghetto child
(Hey, ghetto child,
Absus4
Gb
Bbm
oh)
Verse 19
Fm
Just because I'm a ghetto child
Gb
Absus4
I won't live down to your
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expectations
Bbm
(Sing a song for me)
Fm
Just believe that a ghetto child
Gb
(Sing a song for me)
Absus4
Can rise in the highest celebration
Gb
Bbm
(Everybody sing it now, yeah)
Verse 20
Fm
Know that I am a ghetto child
Gb
Absus4
But I can see the be st in me,
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Fm
can you
Gb
I'm a ghetto child
Absus4
Gb
(So I can see the best in
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Gb
me, can you)
Verse 21
Absus4
It?s not where you're from,
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Fm
Gb
Absus4
Gb
Bbm
Fm
Gb
it?s where you're gonna be
Absus4
It?s not where you're from,
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it?s where you're gonna be
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