D Dsus4 D
D Dsus4 D


[Verse]

       D               F#m
As the snow flies on a cold and grey Chicago morning
  G                A                    D
a poor little baby child is born in the ghetto and his mama cries.
          F#m
’cause if there’s one thing that she doesn’t need
      G             A                    D
it’s another hungry mouth to feed in the ghetto


[Chorus]

                 A                             G       D
People don’t you understand, the child needs a helping hand
   G                   A                    D
or he’ll grow to be an angry young man some day.
               A                     G        D
Take a look at you and me are we too blind to see
   G            F#m                Em             A
Or do we simply turn our heads and look the other way.


[Verse 2]

          D                 F#m
Well, the world turns and a hungry little boy with the running nose
G                          A                      D
Plays in the street as the cold wind blows in the ghetto and his hunger burns,
      F#m
So he starts to roam in the streets at night
       G                          A                          D
And he learns how to steal and he learns how to fight in the ghetto


[Chorus 2]

A                               G                 D
Then one night in desperation a young man breaks away
   G           F#m           Em                        A
He buys a gun, steals a car, tries to run, he don’t get far


[Verse 3]

        D
and his mama cries
     F#m                                           G                         A
As a crowd gathers ‘round an angry young man, face down in the street with a gun in his hand
       D
In the ghetto, and as the young man dies,
     F#m
On a cold and grey Chicago morning
  G                 A                     D
Another little baby child is born in the ghetto and his mama cries