Chords for Ghetto Smile

_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ A young hog in the hood playing chase, style on [Gm] his face, having [Bb] fun cause it ain't none like [C] this place
And you don't wanna race fool I got the [Bb] Pneumazone and we can run from the [Bbm] corner to the [C] Pneumaton
And after that we gon' go and [Bb] raid the palm tree and stick broad down there where them [C] bones be
Moms got the dough, open bumpin' momma [Bb] got, let's get it [Bb] on, all day, [C] every day, at night I pray
Lord just [Gm] let me make it, and [Bb] if I die before I wake, dear my soul you [C] take it, never fake it
My older brother taught [Gm] me that, and [Bb] sometimes even let the young [C] soldier hang
And as a loke, my only duty was to [Bb] suck, and pass it on to [Bbm] my kind, razzing [C] closest folks, all friends
I knew about it [Bb] as a child, I [C] stood proud, have you [Bbm] ever seen the ghetto smile?
[C] In the ghetto there's a smile, [Gm] _
roaming [C] through the streets
Why don't the homies smile for me?
_ [Gm] _ [Bb] _ _ In [C] the ghetto there's a smile, _ [Gm] roaming [Bb] through the streets
Why [C] don't the homies smile for me? _
[Gm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [C] I'm at the junior high, acting bad at the [Bb] dance, the slow jam got [Bbm] me with a wooden in [C] my pants
And baby with me, her momma used to [Bb] babysit, and back then she was just plain old [C] pretty
But now days, it seems [Gm] like she's a grown, jeans hidden in her perm got me [C] all alone
Well I've been grown, if I whisper and take her [Bb] down, and maybe play house sitter with her like [C] the pound
It's going down about now, in the [Gm] northern butt, the [Bb]
OG's put it down, and make it [C] pay
Flip a 6'8 stain, with the blue [Bb]-eyed branch, the only homie in the hood riding [C] on thots
And as I peep it, things have got a little [Bb] deeper, and everybody and [Bbm] they momma, they bought [C] a beeper
And then they post on the late, getting [Bb] loose and wild, you [C] know the saying, [Bbm] it's the ghetto [C] smile
In the ghetto there's a smile, [Gm] _
roaming through the streets
[C] Why don't the homies smile for me?
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [Bb] _ In the ghetto there's a smile, _ [Gm] roaming [C] through the streets
Why don't the homies smile for me? _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] At 18 I graduated, and now I'm [Bb] grown, about time for the dog to get his [C] own bone
I left home, got a condom out in [Bb] Quail Ridge, and like a king, it's [Bbm] how this young player [C] live
Swimming [Am] parties in the pool [Bb] with my dog and bro, wasn't tripping off nothing, we was [C] all fucked
Hillside in the house and we getting [Bb] perved, freestyling, getting on my [C] neighbor's nerve
I love the hood, so everyday I'm [Gm] back to visit, and [Bb] swoop the young, so they can come through and [C] kick it and peak the game
Just as I did as [Gm] a kid, and watch [Bb] the savages get his cabbage, and [C] play some spades, and even though we fight, we still remain gang [Bb] psyched
Handle business, [Bbm] and always open for [C] forgiveness, it ain't nothing like a homie you ain't [Bb] seen in a while
So when you meet him, [Bbm] greet him with that ghetto smile
[C] In the ghetto there's a smile, [Bb] _
roaming through the streets
[C] Why don't the homie smile for me?
Ghetto, [Bb] ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
Talk about that ghetto [C] smile
In the ghetto there's a smile
Keep your [Gm] mean mother on [Bb] point
Oh, oh, oh, oh Yeah
[C] Oh, the homie smile for me
Don't ever let her [Bb] see that other side
In the ghetto there's a smile
The [C] ghetto smile
There's a ghetto in the sky Be [Gm] legit
Ghetto [C] in the sky
Along with Darryl Hall
Why don't the homie smile for me?
And we doing [Bb] this
Ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
For the ninety-six, [C] seven
[Am] Ghetto smile
And [Bb] it don't stop, boy
The ghetto smile [C] Yeah
Oh, the homie smile for me
Ghetto, [Bb] ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
That's the way we going out here, with the ghetto [C] smile
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _