Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
In The Ghetto.
Merle Haggard.
Album: My Farewell To Elvis.
Capo 1.
Play intro as needed
throughout song.
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As the snow flies on a cold and gray Chicago morn,
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A augmentedA poor little baby child is born,
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In the Ghetto and his mama cries,
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Cause there's one thing that she don't need
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Is another little hungry mouth to feed,
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In the Ghetto.
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People don't you understand the child needs a helping hand,
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He'll grow to be an angry young man someday,
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Take a look at you and me are we too blind to see,
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Do we simply turn our heads and look the other way,
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As the world turns.
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A augmentedA hungry little boy with a running nose,
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Plays in the streets as the cold wind blows,
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In the Ghetto, and his hunger burns,
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So he starts to roam the streets at night
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And he learns how to steal and he learns how to fight,
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In the Ghetto.
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Then one night in desperation the young man breaks away,
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And he buys a gun and he steals a car and he tries to run,
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But don't get far, and his mama cries.
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As a crowd gathers round and the angry young man
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Face down the street with a gun in his hand,
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In the Ghetto, as the young man dies.
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On a cold and gray Chicago morn
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Another little baby child is born,
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In the Ghetto, his mama cries
(In Ghetto, oh, oh...)