Ghetto Child

[Intro: Shaggy (Joe)]

All the ghettos around the world, dig this

Ghetto, Fabulous, Joe

Shaggy!

(All the children sing)

[The Boys Choir of Harlem]

I'm a ghetto child

I'm a ghetto child

[Verse 1: Joe]

Check it out

There's a world out there that I wanna see

There's a man that I'm destined to be

I won't be stopped by the ghetto streets

I believe inside that I can't be beat

This life could be a ball and chain

If you let yourself get caught in the game

I had some friends sold drugs for dough

But I don't intend to go down that road

[Chorus: The Boys Choir of Harlem]

Just because I'm a ghetto child

I won't live down to your expectations

Just believe that a ghetto child

Can rise in the highest celebration

Know that I am a ghetto child

But I can see the best in me, can you?

I'm a ghetto child

[Verse 2: Joe (Shaggy)]

(All the ghettos around the world, dig this)

One day I'm gonna change the world

Make a better place for every boy and girl

Everyone in need, homeless families

Have a place to sleep and food to eat

I'll take every gun off the streets

So another tear won't be shed in grief

And every thug in every hood

I will make 'em change from bad to good

[Pre-Chorus: Joe (The Boys Choir of Harlem)]

I believe that it can be done

Gotta start somewhere and I'm that one

All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)

All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)

[Chorus: The Boys Choir of Harlem]

Just because I'm a ghetto child

I won't live down to your expectations

Just believe that a ghetto child

Can rise in the highest celebration

Know that I am a ghetto child

But I can see the best in me, can you?

I'm a ghetto child

[Verse 3: Joe Shaggy & Joe]

Hey, yo

Look at me in a different light

Spare me all about those stereotypes

Ain't no madness that'll bring me down

Gonna take this life and turn it around

The sky's the limit, I won't be denied

Ain't no stoppin' me, I'm a ghetto child

And at the end, when it's said and done

We will all be singin' this ghetto song

[Pre-Chorus: Joe (The Boys Choir of Harlem)]

I believe that it can be done

Gotta start somewhere and I'm that one

All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)

All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)

[Chorus: The Boys Choir of Harlem] X3

Just because I'm a ghetto child

I won't live down to your expectations

Just believe that a ghetto child

Can rise in the highest celebration

Know that I am a ghetto child

But I can see the best in me, can you?

I'm a ghetto child

[Outro]

It's not where you're from

It's where you're gonna be

It's not where you're from

It's where you're gonna be