Ghetto Boy chords and lyrics - STEPHEN MARLEY

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[Verse 1]
[B]Yow! [Em](Ghetto) they
do more to the people
Than for the people (Get out, Get
it)
They crash the economy [B]like
a vehicle
(Let's set it, I heard dem)
Seh dem a don [Em]and dem a
dupes and dem a dadda
(Stupid fools)
Inna the heart of the youths dem
Future yuh stick a dagger
[B](That's what they did)
Let's do this ragga (Let's move)

[Verse 2]
Once I [Em]was a little child
Little things that make me smile
But [B]quickly I became a man
The don put a gun into my hand
Told me [Em]that I could live or die
I didn't know the reason why
But [B]my gun became my toy
The story of the ghetto boy
Ghetto [Em]boy, ghetto boy
The story of the ghetto boy
Ghetto [B]boy, ghetto boy
The story of the ghetto boy
[Em]

[Verse 3]
Well, [B]di [Em]story of a ghetto boy
Who di don give di gun an tink
him get a toy
So him deploy inna di street
To [Am]set a[B] better joy
But now him buck up di police
and him regret
A choice Death is what him get a tise
[Em]Story of a ghetto yute
Who the don give the gun
And seh yuh better shoot
If yuh want to wear a better suit
Yuh [B]want fi drive a coupe
Wear a couple gold chain and
Sleep with couple prostitute
Dem future yuh a prosecute
No don [Em]cyah tell I nutten or press I button
[B]Mi [Em]a gwaan eat mi greens
If mi cyah buy mut[B]ton
Mi nuh red eye or glutton fi
No gyal or guy somn
No hold di fate so till the gate
Jah seh fi I must open
[A]We [B]nuh [Em]waan see Andrew Holness
We nuh waan see [B]Portia
[Em]NCB mi waan fi see and [B]Scotia
Tell P and JP, both a dem a joker
But me proud a ghetto mi come outta
Once I [Em]was a little

[Verse 4]
child
Little things that make me smile
But [B]quickly I became a man
The don put a gun into my hand
Told me [Em]that I could live or die
I didn't know the reason why
But [B]my gun became my toy
The story of the ghetto boy
Ghetto [Em]boy, ghetto boy
[B]The [Em]story of the ghetto boy
[B]Ghetto boy, ghetto boy
The story of the ghetto boy

[Verse 5]
Mi [B]tell dem
[Em]Ghetto we ghetto we nuh
change we ways Yuh
Violate man an a grades [A]a blaze
[B]Anywhere the food deh man ago go for
Nah suffer, caw man a look fi greater days
[Em]Suppose mi tell yuh seh we
go fi [B]food [Em]anyweh
And we nuh fraid a no jail or cemetery
[B]We bring heat to the streets
All [C]front [B]a police
Still a mek step to di enemy
[Em]We mek di eagle fly high
mek dem [B]see dat
(dem see [Em]dat) dem see that
Anything drop dem know [B]a we that
Front page pon every news [C]net[B]work
Menace to society the
world seh a we dat
[Em]House and car everybody need dat
A no every ghetto boy out
[A]deh [B]a eediat
Any means necessary man a pree dat
From a little tot mi head real hot
Once I [Em]was a little child Little

[Verse 6]
[Em]
things that make me smile
But [B]quickly I became a man
The don put a gun into my hand
Told me [Em]that I could live or die
I didn't know the reason why
But my [B]gun became my toy
The story of the ghetto boy
Ghetto [Em]boy, ghetto boy
[B]The [Em]story of the ghetto boy
[B]Ghetto boy, ghetto boy

[Outro 1]
The story of the ghetto [B]boy[Em]
[A][B]
[Em][B][Cdim][B]
[Em]