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Little Ghetto Boy
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My grandmother suits was tailor made,
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Sundays Mahalia played
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Simple familiar ways,
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Like how she kneeled and prayed
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Willin', master forgive us,
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Our trust pastors had us real afraid
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I never listened yet I still obeyed
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I got to see how Philly played at such an early age
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What my father was into sent him to his early grave
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Then moms started chasin' that base, like Willie Mays
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My childhood was all of forty nights and forty days
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Trouble was my ball and chain, shorties would call me names
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Humble beginnings
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But a star is what it all became
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My journey from a dirty hallway,
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To the Hall of Fame
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Music my therapeutic way to cope with all this pain
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Was headed for the drain,
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Soakin' before the rainwater came
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And chaos, into the order came
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I started doin' what I'm 'sposed to do in life
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Tryin' to move out of the dark,
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And closer to the light
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They say if you get a chance to do it over do it right
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Tomorrow isn't promised every time, you say goodnight
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Knahmtalkin'bout? Uh, yo
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Story of a little ghetto boy, check it out
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Yeah yeah
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Little ghetto boy, oh
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Playin' in the ghetto street, ay-ay!
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What'chu gonna do when you grow up
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And have to face responsibility?
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Yeah yeah
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Will you spend your days and nights in a pool room?
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Will you sell caps of madness, to the neighborhood
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Little ghetto boy
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You already know, how rough life could be
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Cause we see, so much pain and misery
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Yeah, yeah
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Little ghetto boy, yeah
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Your daddy was blown away
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Hey yeah
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He robbed that grocery store yeah
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Do you know that was a sad sad day?
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Ey-yeah
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All your young life you've seen such misery and pain
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The world's a cruel place to live in, it ain't gonna change yeah
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You're so young, and you've got so far to go
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Don't think you'll reach your goal young man
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Talkin 'bout the ghetto boy
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Yeah yeah yeah
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Yeah, yeah little ghetto boy-oy
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When when you become a man, yeah
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You can make things change
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Oh if you just take a stand, yeah yeah
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You've got to believe in yourself, in all that you do
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You've got to fight to make it better, better
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And you will see, that others will start believin' too
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Then my son, things will start to get better
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Hey yeah yeah
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(Everything has got to get better)
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Oh
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(Everything has got to get better)
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Everything is gonna get better
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(Everything has got to get better)
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Yeah yeah yeah
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(Everything has got to get better)
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Don't you know its gonna get better
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(Everything has got to get better)
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Hey yeah yeah
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(Everything has got to get better)
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I do believe that everything
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(Everything has got to get better)
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Yeah yeah yeah yeah
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(Everything has got to get better)
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Whoa
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(Everything has got to get better)
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Oh yeah yeah
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(Everything has got to get better)
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Whoa
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(Everything has got to get better)
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Yeah yeah yeah yeah
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Little ghetto boy, hm yeah
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Yeah yeah yeah
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(Everything has got to get better)
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Hey yeah yeah
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Got to believe that everything
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Yeah yeah yeah yeah
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Whoa ho oh oh oh
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Whoa yeah
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Whoa ho oh oh oh
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Oh yeah yeah
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Yeah, yeah, little ghetto boy
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Mm yeah yeah
Donny Hathaway - Little Ghetto Boy
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