Harry Belafonte The Ghetto Lyrics

The Ghetto Lyrics

Lyrics:



If you ever lived in the ghetto

It may be at the
close of your day

From your front-porch you can hear

The sound of
the juke-box

Coming over from the neighborhood cafe



Oh at
noon you may hear the neighbors fussing

When a kid, a little bit a kid
breaks a window-pane

And at night, yes at night you may be awaken

By the sound of an outward bound train



Well outsiders they
refuse, refuse to help us

And they down us for living the way we do

But when you born. when you born the child of a poor man

They say the
ghetto is the only place for you



Well if there's such, such a
thing as here-after

And I'm satisfy, yes I'm satisfy there may be

Oh when they build, when they build a new Jerusalem

There will be,
there will be no more ghetto for you and me

I said there will be no more
ghetto for you and me