Baby - baby - boy - child - crowd -

mama - man - man - people - face -

mouth - hand - hand - heads - nose -

snow - wind - mornin' - mornin' - night -

hunger - desperation - gun

In the Ghetto

Elvis Presley

As the _______ flies
On a cold and gray Chicago _______
A poor little _______ child is born
In the ghetto
And his _______ a cries
'cause if there's one thing that she don't need
it's another hungry _______ to feed
In the ghetto
_______, don't you understand
the _______ needs a helping _______
or he'll grow to be an angry young _______some day
Take a look at you and me,
are we too blind to see,
do we simply turn our _______
and look the other way
Well the world turns
and a hungry little _______ with a runny _______
plays in the street as the cold _______ blows
In the ghetto
And his _______ burns
so he starts to roam the streets at _______
and he learns how to steal
and he learns how to fight
In the ghetto
Then one night in _______
a young man breaks away
He buys a_______, steals a car,
tries to run, but he don't get far
And his mama cries
As a _______ gathers 'round an angry young man
_______ down on the street with a gun in his ______
In the ghetto
As her young _______ dies,
on a cold and gray Chicago _______,
another little _______ child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries



Núria Brichs
nbrichs@xtec.cat