IN THE GHETTO
ELVIS PRESLEY



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	1.	As the snow flies, on a cold and grey Chicago morning
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		A poor little baby child is born, in the ghetto
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      	And his mama cries, 'cause if there's one thing that she doesn't need
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		It's another hungry mouth to feed, in the ghetto


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	2.	People don't you understand, the child needs a helping hand
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		Or he'll gonna 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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	3.	Well the world turns and a hungry little boy with a running nose
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		Plays in the street and a cold wind blows, in the ghetto
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		And his hunger burnes, so he starts stire on the streets at nights
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		And he learns how to steel and he learns how to fight, in the ghetto


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	4.	Then one night in desperation the young man breaks away
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		He buys a gun he steels a car, he tries to run but he doesn't get far


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	5.	And his mama cries, as a crowed gather round an angry young man
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		Face down in the street with a gun in his hand, in the ghetto
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		And as her young man dies, on a cold and grey Chicago morning
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		Another little baby child is born, in the ghetto


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	6.	People don't you understand, the child needs a helping hand
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		Or he'll gonna 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
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		And look the other way