In The Ghetto

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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1. As the snow flies
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   On a cold and grey Chicago morning
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   A poor little baby child is born in the ghetto
   
   And his mamma cries
   'Cos if there's one thing that she don't need
   It is another hungry mouth to feed in the ghetto

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R: People dont you understand
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   The child needs a helping hand
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   he's gonna grow to be an angry young man some day
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   Take a look at you and me
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   Are we too blind to see
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   Or do we simply turn our heads and look the other way

2. And 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

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*: Then one night in desperation the young man breaks away
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   He buys a gun, he steals a car,
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   He tries to run but he don't get far

3. And his mamma cries
   As a crowd gathers round an angry young man
   Face down in the street with a gun in his hand in the ghetto
   And as her young man dies
   On a cold and grey Chicago morning
   Another little baby child is born in the ghetto