The Baron Paroles

And his mama cries - cause if there's onething she doesn't need
F G7 C
it's another hungry mouth to feed. In the ghetto.
C G F C
People, don't you understand, the child needs a helping hand
F G7 C
he would grow to be an angry man someday.
C G F7 C
Take a look at you and me, are we to blind to see.
F Em Dm G7
Or do we simply turn our heads and looks the other way ?
C Em
Where the world turns - and a hungry little boy with the running nose
F G7 C
plays in the street as the cold winds blows. In the ghetto.
C Em
And his hunger burns - and he starts to roam the streets at night
F G7
And he learns how to steel and he learns how to fight.
C He buy a gun, he steals a car, he has to run, but he don't get far,
C Em
And his mama cries - as a growd gather's 'round an angry young man,
F G7 C
Face down in the street with a gun in his hand. In the ghetto.
C Em
And as her young man died - on a cold and gray Chicago mornin',
F G7 C
Another little baby child is born. In the ghetto, Ooh, Ohh.
And his mama cries ...