In The Ghetto Lyrics

In The Ghetto lyrics

Elvis Presley
      In The Ghetto (The Vicious Circle)
     
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As the snow flies
On a cold and gray
Chicago mornin'
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his
mama cries
'cause if there's one thing that she don't need
it's another
hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto
People, don't you understand
the
child needs a helping hand
or he'll grow to be an angry young man some
day
Take a look at you and me,
are we too blind to see,
do we simply
turn our heads
and look the other way
Well the world turns
and a
hungry little boy with a runny nose
plays in the street as the cold wind
blows
In the ghetto
And his hunger burns
so he starts to roam the
streets at night
and he learns how to steal
and he learns how to
fight
In the ghetto
Then one night in desperation
a young man breaks
away
He buys a gun, steals a car,
tries to run, but he don't get
far
And his mama cries
As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young
man
face down in the street with a gun in his hand
In the ghetto
As
her young man dies,
on a cold and grey Chicago mornin',
another little
baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries
In the
ghetto
In the ghetto