Chords for The Ghetto

[Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ Talking about [Bm] the ghetto
_ _ [E] _
Funky, _ [Bm] funky ghetto
_ [E] Trying _ _ [Bm] to survive
_ [E] _
Trying to stay alive
[Bm] Funky ghetto, _ [E] _ _
_ _ [Bm] funky ghetto
[E] Talking about the ghetto
[Bm] Funky ghetto, _ [E] _ _
_ _ [Bm] funky ghetto
[E] Funky, funky ghetto
[Bm] Even though the streets are bumpy, lights [E] burned out
Dope fiends die with a pipe in [Bm] their mouth
Old school buddies not doing [E] it right
Every day it's the same and it's the same [Bm] every night
I wouldn't shoot you bro, but I'd shoot [E] that fool
If you played me close and [Bm] tried to test my coup
Every day I wonder, is this how [E] I die?
Only thing I know is [Bm] how to survive
There's only one rule in the real [E] world
And that's to take care of you, only you [Bm] and yours
Keep dealing with the hard times day after [E] day
Might deal me some dope, but then crime [Bm] don't pay
Black man trying to break in my house [E] again
Thought he got off the dope, doing time in [Bm] the pen
Even though my brothers do me just [E] like that
I get a [Bm] lot of love, so I'm giving it back to them
Talking [E] about the ghetto
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [E] Funky _ [Bm] ghetto
_ _ _ [E] Trying to live our [Bm] lives
_ _ [E] Don't you tell nobody [Bm] too sure
So just keep the game and don't call [E] it crap
Cause to me, life is one [Bm] hard rap
Even though my sister smoked crack [E] cocaine
She was nine months pregnant, [Bm] ain't nothing changed
Six hundred million on the football [E] team
And her baby died just like a [D] dophine
The story I tell is so [E] incomplete
Five kids in the house, no food [Bm] to eat
Don't look at me and don't ask [E] me why
Mama's next door, getting [Bm] hot
Even though she's got five miles [E] to feed
She'd rather spend her money on her HIT
[Bm] I always tell the truth about things [E] like this
I wonder if the mayor [Bm] overlooked that list
Instead of adding to the task force, send some [E] help
Waiting on him, I better help [Bm] myself
Housing Authority and the [E] OPD
All these guns just to handle [Bm] me and my Funk ghetto
_ [E] People are dying [Bm] _ Funk ghetto
[E] Children are crying
_ [Bm] Funk ghetto
[E] Don't have enough to [Bm] eat Funk ghetto
Don't even [E] have shoes Funk [Bm] ghetto
_ Even [E] _ _
_ [Bm] though they put us down and call us [E] animals
We make real big [Bm] banks and buy brand new clothes
Drive fancy cars, make love to [E] stars
Never really seeing just who we [Bm] are
We use alias names like too [E] short
Sell you stuff you [Bm] might kill for
Young kids grow up and that's all they [E] know
Didn't teach him in school, now [Bm] he's slangin' dope
Only thing he knows is how to [E] survive
But will he kill another brother before he [Bm] dies in the ghetto
You keep one [E] eye open all day long
Just hoping [Bm] and hoping
You can pay your bills and not drink too [E] much
Send the problems of life you'll [Bm] be throwing up Like me
But you don't [E] see 10 years from now
Where will you [Bm] be?
Funk ghetto
Trying [E] to get out of the ghetto [Bm] Funk ghetto
[E] But I got no place to [Bm] go Funk ghetto
[E] Trying to survive in the heart of [Bm] the ghetto
Funk ghetto
Cause [E] that's the only place [Bm] that I know
So much game in a too short [E] rap
Can't be white and whites [Bm] can't be black
Why you wanna act like someone [E] else?
All you gotta do is just [Bm] be yourself
We're all the same color underneath
[E] Short doggers in the house you better [Bm] listen to me
Never be ashamed of what you [E] are
Proud to be black, stand [Bm] tall and hard
Even though some people give you no [E] respect
Be intelligent when you put them in [Bm] check
Cause when you're ignorant you get treated that [E] way
And when they throw you in jail you got [Bm] nothing to say
So if you don't listen it's not my [E] fault
I'll be getting paid and you'll be paying the [Bm] cost
Sitting in the jailhouse running your [E] mouth
While me and my people try [Bm] to get out Funk ghetto
Talking [E] about the ghetto
Talking about [Bm] the ghetto Funk ghetto
Talking [E] about the ghetto [Bm] Funk _ ghetto
Talking [E] about the ghetto
Trying to survive [Bm] The ghetto
Talking [E] about the ghetto
Trying to stay alive [Bm] The ghetto
Talking [E] about the ghetto
Funk and funk and [Bm] ghetto
_ Got [E] _
no [Bm] place else to go The ghetto
Talking [E] about the ghetto
[Bm] Trying to stay alive
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