In The Ghetto-Dolly Parton

[ti:In the Ghetto] [ar:Dolly Parton] [al:My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]In The Ghetto - Dolly Parton [00:05.83]As the snow flies [00:09.49] [00:11.26]On a cold and gray Chicago morn' [00:14.11] [00:14.64]A poor little baby child is born [00:17.12]In the ghetto [00:18.30] [00:22.49]And his mama cries [00:25.49] [00:28.01]'Cause if there's one thing that she don't need [00:31.11]It's another little hungry mouth to feed [00:33.64]In the ghetto [00:35.28] [00:38.99]People can't you understand [00:40.59] [00:41.38]The child needs a helping hand [00:44.27] [00:45.08]Or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day [00:48.58] [00:49.98]Take a look at you and me [00:51.85] [00:52.57]Are we too blind to see [00:55.20] [00:56.28]Do we simply turn our heads [00:58.76]And look the other way [01:01.94] [01:03.30]While the world turns [01:06.53] [01:09.01]And a hungry little boy with a runny nose [01:12.26]Plays in the street as the cold wind blows [01:15.34]In the ghetto [01:16.16] [01:20.30]And his hunger burns [01:23.33] [01:25.56]So he starts to roam the streets at night [01:28.74]And he learns how to steal [01:30.09]And he learns how to fight [01:31.70]In the ghetto [01:32.86] [01:37.31]Then one night in desperation [01:39.07] [01:39.78]A young man breaks away [01:41.98] [01:42.67]He buys him a gun steals a car [01:45.10]Tries to run but he don't get far [01:48.52]And his mama cries [01:50.92] [01:54.74]As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man [01:57.46]Face down in the street with a gun in his hand [02:00.70]In the ghetto [02:01.74] [02:06.04]And a young man dies [02:08.88] [02:11.49]On a cold and gray Chicago morn' [02:14.60]Another little baby child is born [02:17.07]In the ghetto [02:18.74] [02:22.65]And it's mama cries