"Ghetto Child"

(feat. Shaggy)



{All the ghettos around the world}

{Dig this}

{Ghetto Fabulous Joe}

{Shaggy}

All the children sing {Uh}



I'm a ghetto child

I'm a ghetto child (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 who sold drugs for dough

But I don't intend to go down that road



Just because I'm a ghetto child

I won't live down to your expectations (No, no)

Just believe that a ghetto child

Can rise in the highest celebration (Oh)

Know that I am a ghetto child

But I can see the best in me, can you

I'm a ghetto child



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



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)



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 (Ooh, yeah, ooh)



{Hey, yo', look at me inna 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



{Now see, 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



I believe that it can be done (Yeah, oh)

Gotta start somewhere and I'm that one

All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)

All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)



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 (Oh...oh...oh...)

Know that I am a ghetto child

But I can see the best in me, can you

I'm a ghetto child (Let's go to church now)



Just because I'm a ghetto child (Uh)

I won't live down to your expectations (Take me to

church now)

Just believe that a ghetto child (Ooh)

Can rise in the highest celebration (Hey, hey)

Know that I am a ghetto child (Ooh, yeah)

But I can see the best in me, can you

I'm a ghetto child (Hey, ghetto child,

whoa...oh...ooh...)



Just because I'm a ghetto child

I won't live down to your expectations (Sing a song

for me)

Just believe that a ghetto child (Sing a song for me)

Can rise in the highest celebration (Everybody sing it

now, yeah)

Know that I am a ghetto child

But I can see (Ooh, yeah) the best in me, can you (Oh)

I'm a ghetto child (So I can see the best in me, can

you)



It's not where you're from, it's where you're gonna be

(Hey)

It's not where you're from, it's where you're gonna be