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Ghetto Boy
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Stephen Marley
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(Intro)
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They do more to the people than for the people They crash the economy like a vehicle
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Seh dem a don and dem a dupes and dem a dadda
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Inna the heart of the youths dem future yuh stick a dagger Let's do this brother
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Once I was a little child
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Little things that make me smile
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But quickly I became a man
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A don put a gun into my hand
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Told me that I could live or die
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I didn't know the reason why
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But my gun became my toy
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The story of the ghetto boy
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Ghetto boy, ghetto boy,
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the story of the ghetto boy, ghetto boy, ghetto boy
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the story of the ghetto boy (Verse 1)
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Well, the story of a ghetto boy
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Who the don give the gun and think him get a toy
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So him deploy in the street to set a better joy
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But now him buck up the police and him regret a choice Death is what him get a tise
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Story of a ghetto youth
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Who the don give the gun and seh yuh better shot
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If yuh want to wear a better suit yuh want fi drive a coupe Wear a couple gold chain and sleep with couple prostitute Dem future yuh a prosecute
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No don cyah tell I nuttn or press I button
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Mi a gwaan eat mi greens if mi cyah buy mutton
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Mi nuh red eye or glutton fi no gyal or guy supm
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No hold di fate so till the gate Jah seh fi I must open
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We nuh waan see Andrew Holnes, we nuh waan see Portia
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NCB mi waan fi see and Scotia
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... and JP, both a dem a joker
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But mi proud a ghetto mi come outta
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(Verse 2)
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Mi tell dem, ghetto we ghetto we nuh change we ways Yuh violate man a nd a grains a blaze
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Anywhere the food deh man ago go for
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Naw suffer, caw man a look fi greater days
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Suppose mi tell yuh seh we go fi food anywhere
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And we nuh fraid a no jail or cemetery
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We bring heat to the streets all front a police
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Still a mek step to the enemy
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We mek the eagle fly high mek dem see that
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Dem see that, anything drop dem know a we that
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Front page pon every news network
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Menace to society the world seh a we that
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House and car everybody need that
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A no every ghetto boy out deh a idiot
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Any means necessary man a pree that
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From a little tot mi head real hot
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(Verse 3)
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