In The Ghetto | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb :||
Verse 1
| Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb |
As the snow flies.
| Dm7 | Eb F |
On a cold and gray Chicago mornin’ a poor little baby child is born.
| Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb |
In the ghetto.
Verse 2
| Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb |
And his mama cries.
| Dm7 | Eb F |
‘Cause if there’s one thing that she don’t need it’s another little hungry mouth to feed.
| Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb |
In the ghetto.
Bridge 1
| F | Eb Bb |
People, don’t you understand, the child needs a helping hand.
| Eb F | Bb |
Or he’ll grow to be an angry young man someday.
| F | Eb Bb |
Take a look at you and me, are we too blind to see?
| Eb Dm7 | Cm7 F7 | 2/4 F7 | 4/4
Do we simply turn our heads and look the other way?
Verse 3
| Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb |
Well, the world turns.
| Dm7 | Eb F |
And a hungry little boy with a runny nose plays in the street as the cold wind blows.
| Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb |
In the ghetto (in the ghetto).
Verse 4
| Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb |
And his hunger burns.
| Dm7 | Eb F |
So he starts to roam the streets at night and he learns how to steal and he learns how to fight.
| Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb |
In the ghetto (in the ghetto).
Bridge 2
| F | Eb Bb |
Then one night in desperation, the young man breaks away.
| Eb Dm7 | Cm7 F7 |
He buys a gun, steals a car, tries to run, but he don’t get far.
Verse 5
| Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb |
And his mama cries.
| Dm7 | Eb F |
As a crowd gathers ’round an angry young man, face down on the street with a gun in his hand.
| Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb |
In the ghetto (in the ghetto).
Verse 6
| Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb |
And as her young man dies.
| Dm7 | Eb F | 2/4 F |
On a cold and gray Chicago mornin’, another little baby child is born.
| Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb |
In the ghetto (in the ghetto).
Outro
||: Bb Bbsus4 | Bb Bbsus4 Bb :||
And his mama cries (in the ghetto).
(In the ghetto) (Ah).
In The Ghetto’s chords, progressions, and TAB
In The Ghetto is a single by Elvis Presley from 1969, specifically released for his comeback.
It was an instant huge success reaching the top 5 in the charts worldwide, selling a million copies in the U.S. alone.
The chords are diatonic from the key of Bb. The main riff adding and taking away a sus4 extension. Exactly how to do this is best described using TAB, which you get as a member, as well as a full chord analysis.
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