The Ghetto chords by
Dennis Marsh

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Key: B major

Verse 1
G G 
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As the snow flies
Bm Bm 2
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On a cold and gray Chicago morn
C C 
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D D 
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G G 
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A poor little baby child was born in a ghetto
In a ghetto
And his mama cried
Bm Bm 2
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Cause there's one thing
that she don't need
C C 
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D D 
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Is another little hungry mouth to feed
G G 
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In a ghetto
In a ghetto
D D 
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People don't you understand,
C C 
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G G 
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the child needs a healthy hand
C C 
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Cause he'll grow to be
D D 
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G G 
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an angry young man someday
D D 
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Take a look at you and me,
C C 
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are we too blind to see
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C C 
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Bm Bm 2
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Or do we simply turn our heads
Am Am 
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D D 
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G G 
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and look the other way
Bm Bm 2
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And a hungry little boy with a run
C C 
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D D 
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Plays in the street as the cold wind blows
G G 
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In the ghetto, in the ghetto
And his hunger burns
Bm Bm 2
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So he starts to roam the streets at night
C C 
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He learns how to steal
D D 
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G G 
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and he learns how to fight in the ghetto
D D 
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Then one night, in desperation,
C C 
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the young man breaks away
G G 
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C C 
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Bm Bm 2
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Fires a gun, steals a car,
Am Am 
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tries to run, but
D D 
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Bm Bm 2
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G G 
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He don't get far, and his mama cries
Bm Bm 2
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As the crowd gathers round
an angry young man face
C C 
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down in the street
D D 
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G G 
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With a gun in his hand in the ghetto
And as the young man dies
Bm Bm 2
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On a cold and gray Chicago mornin'
C C 
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D D 
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Another little baby child was born
G G 
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In the ghetto, and his mama cries
In the ghetto, and his mama cries
In the ghettos, and his momma cries
In the ghettos, and his momma cries
In the ghetto

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