Ghetto Life Chords by Rick James

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When I [G] was a young boy, growing up [C] in the ghetto, [G]
hanging [Gm] out on corners, singing [C] with
the fellas, [F]
looking for the [Gm] cute chicks, trying to [C] find me big funds, looking [Gm] for some trouble,
anyone [C] who'd give me [F] some.
I was [Gm] getting crazy, _ _ [C] _ _ [G]
didn't know what my life would be, [C] _ _ [F]
I was [Gm] dumb
as all so lazy, [C] _ _ [Gm]
something had a spell on me.
[C] _ [F] You all know what I'm talking about, _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _
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you all
know what I'm talking about.
I was a little cute girl, she said her [C] name was Nancy, [F] she had pigtails
[Gm] to her shoulders, she couldn't have been [C] much older, [Gm] she taught me what I had to know to make a girl [C] not want to go.
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She was gonna get [Gm] me, [C] get me, [Gm] she laid her pigtails down on me, [C] get me, [F] and I was [G] feeling all so sneaky,
[C] _ [Gm] I had to see what love would be.
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[Bb] Do [C] it all alone, the game was [Dm]
[Bb] strong, [G] _ _ but [F] I was [Gm] wrong that time.
_ [C] You had to play, [Dm] it was that [Bb] [G] way.
Did you think I was man [Am] enough?
Did you think I was smart [Bb] enough?
Did you think I was strong [C] enough?
Did you think I was working [F] out? _ _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ it, play it, feel it, bring it, [Dm] play [G] it.
[Am] Ghetto life, [F] you got to get more [Dm] over.
Ghetto [G] life.
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When I [G] was a young boy, [C] tenements swung the corner [Gm] bumps, playing tag with winos, the only [C] way to have some [F] fun.
One thing [G] about the ghetto, [Am] you don't have to hurry, [G]
[F] it'll be [Gm] fine tomorrow, brother [C] don't you worry.
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[Dm] Ghetto, _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [F] talking about [Gm] ghetto life, _ [C] _ _ [F]
ghetto [Dm] _ life, _ [C] baby.
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[F] _ [Dm] _ Talking about [Gm] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ [F] ghetto _ _ [G] life.
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People we got to get over, [G] _ _ [C] _ _
[F] talking about the life.
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Where's the [Gm] place to fuck?
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_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ [F] Say where's the place to [Dm] fuck?
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_ [Dm] _ Where's the place [C] to [F] fuck?
[Dm] Where's the place, the place to fuck?
Where's the place, the place you like [C] to fuck?
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[C] Talk about the _ _ _ [Gm] ghetto, _ _ _ _ _ talk about the ghetto.
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