In The Ghetto Chords by Merle Haggard

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[F] _ [Bb] As the snow [F] flies, [Bb] _ _
_ [Dm] on a cold and gray Chicago [Eb] morn, a poor little [F] baby child is [Bb] born in the ghetto. _ _ _
_ And his mama _ [F] [Bb] cries, _ _ [Dm] cause if there's one thing that she don't need, it's [Eb] another little [F] hungry
mouth to feed in the [Bb] ghetto. _ _ _
_ _ [F] People don't you understand, [Eb] if the child needs [Bb] a helping hand, [Eb] he'll grow to [F] be an
angry young [Bb] man someday.
_ _ [F] Take a look at you and me, [Eb] are we too [Bb] blind to see, [Eb] or do we [Dm] simply turn our [Cm] heads and
look [F] the other way? _ _ _ _ _
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A hungry little boy with a runny nose [Eb] plays in [F] the streets where the coal wind [Bb] blows in the ghetto.
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[Bb] his hunger burns, _ _ _ [Dm] so he starts to roam the streets at night and [Eb] he learns how to
steal [F] and he learns [Bb] how to fight in the ghetto. _ _ _ _ _
[F] Then one night in [Eb] desperation, the young [Bb] man breaks away, [Eb] and he buys a gun and [Dm] he steals
a car and he [Cm] tries to [F] run, but he don't get far.
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_ [Dm] As a crowd gathers round, an angry young man [Eb] facedown in [F] the street with a gun in [Bb] his hand
standing in the ghetto. _ _ _
_ As the young man dies in the ghetto, _ _ [Dm] on a cold and grey Chicago [Bbm] morn, another little
baby [F] child is [Bb] born in the ghetto. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ His mama cries in _ _ _ _ _ _ the ghetto. _ _ _
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