Ghetto Child

[00:01.65] All the ghettos around the world
[00:04.53] Dig this
[00:07.55] Ghetto Fabulous Joe
[00:09.44] Shaggy (All the children sing)
[00:11.50] I'm a ghetto child
[00:17.26] I'm a ghetto child (Check it, out)
[00:22.57] There's a world out there that I wanna see
[00:25.11] There's a man that I'm destined to be
[00:28.48] I won't be stopped by the ghetto streets
[00:31.35] I believe inside that I can't be beat
[00:34.72] This life could be a ball and chain
[00:36.73] If you let yourself get caught in the game
[00:39.82] I had some friends who sold drugs for dough
[00:42.67] But I don't intend to go down that road
[00:45.79] Just because I'm a ghetto child
[00:48.69] I won't live down to your expectations (No, no)
[00:51.99] Just believe that a ghetto child
[00:54.22] Can rise to the highest elevation (Oh)
[00:57.53] Know that I am a ghetto child
[01:00.18] But I can see the best in me, can you?
[01:03.15] I'm a ghetto child
[01:06.25] (All the ghettos around the world, dig this)
[01:09.00] One day I'm gonna change the world
[01:11.49] Make a better place for every boy and girl
[01:14.22] Everyone in need, homeless families
[01:16.98] Have a place to sleep and food to eat
[01:20.25] I'll take every gun off the streets
[01:22.82] So another tear won't be shed in grief
[01:26.21] And every thug in every hood
[01:28.52] I will make 'em change from bad to good
[01:32.29] I believe that it can be done
[01:34.17] Gotta start somewhere and I'm that one
[01:37.25] All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)
[01:39.94] All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)
[01:43.51] Just because I'm a ghetto child
[01:45.85] I won't live down to your expectations
[01:49.20] Just believe that a ghetto child
[01:51.58] Can rise to the highest elevation
[01:55.06] Know that I am a ghetto child
[01:57.28] But I can see the best in me, can you?
[02:00.44] I'm a ghetto child (Ooh, yeah, ooh)
[02:04.88] Hey, yo', look at me in a different light
[02:08.42] Just forget, all about those stereotypes
[02:11.85] Ain't gon' let this hood bring me down
[02:14.26] Gonna take this life and turn it around
[02:17.01] That's right, sky's the limit, I won't be denied
[02:20.16] Ain't no stoppin' me, I'm a ghetto child
[02:23.45] And at the end when it's said and done
[02:25.83] We will all be singin' this ghetto song
[02:29.28] I believe that it can be done (Yeah, oh)
[02:31.34] Gotta start somewhere and I'm that one
[02:34.49] All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)
[02:37.22] All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)
[02:40.74] Just because I'm a ghetto child
[02:43.38] I won't live down to your expectations
[02:46.65] Just believe that a ghetto child
[02:48.83] Can rise to the highest elevation (Oh, oh, oh)
[02:52.23] Know that I am a ghetto child
[02:54.78] But I can see the best in me, can you
[02:57.65] I'm a ghetto child (Let's go to church now)
[03:03.85] Just because I'm a ghetto child (Uh)
[03:05.97] I won't live down to your expectations (Take me to church now)
[03:09.42] Just believe that a ghetto child (Ooh)
[03:11.81] Can rise to the highest elevation (Hey, hey)
[03:15.31] Know that I am a ghetto child (Ooh, yeah)
[03:17.74] But I can see the best in me, can you?
[03:20.66] I'm a ghetto child (Hey, ghetto child, oh-oh-ooh)
[03:26.52] Just because I'm a ghetto child
[03:28.92] I won't live down to your expectations (Sing a song for me)
[03:32.43] Just believe that a ghetto child (Sing a song for me)
[03:34.61] Can rise to the highest elevation (Everybody sing it now, yeah)
[03:38.47] Know that I am a ghetto child
[03:40.32] But I can see the best in me, can you? (Oh)
[03:43.43] I'm a ghetto child (So I can see the best in me, can you?)
[03:53.03] It's not where you're from, it's where you're gonna be (Hey)
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[04:04.58] It's not where you're from, it's where you're gonna be
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