Lil' Ghetto Boy Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]Ohh [F]yeaahhh
[Am]Whoaaa- ho- [F]ohhhhhhh
[Am]I wonder what my life would be if[F]
I
Had that paaaper (Ohhhhhh)
[Am]I'm just a ghetto boy
[F]A little ghetto boy (Ohhhhh)
They tell me it's like
The [Am]money, power,
money [F]and power
How can this world rotate without
this money and power?
If I had [Am]money,
I'd keep my peoples outta [F]poverty
'Cause ain't no more starvin' when
y'all around me (Shiiit)
This what it [Am]gotta be B,
and every playa got pa[F]per
Shinin' like a superstar,
with matchin' minks and gators
Keepin' our [Am]family off
this poor table
Cause ain't [F]no food on it
And every crab up in this bucket
gotta move on [Am]it
I'm just a ghetto boy
Livin' in this [F]ghetto world
Stayin' with' this ghetto chick
Hopin' to have a ghetto girl
[Am]And after all,
ain't no spaces for [F]that
How can we live up in this world,
when ain't no place for the blacks?
Cause every [Am]dollar got a dream behind it,
we [F]seem to be blinded
Malcom X,
he had to dream to remind us
Believe [Am]me,
havin' money can have [Em]this world fucked [F]up
But it can't answer yo' prayers,
when you get down on [Am]yo' luck
I wonder what my life [F]would be if I
[Am]Had that paaaper
I'm just a ghetto boy
[F](O hhh yes I am)
A little ghetto [Am]boy (Ohhh)
Now if I live on top of the world
[F]Shinin' like, diamonds and pearls
(Diamonds and [Am]pearls)
Still a ghetto [F]boy (Yeaah)
A little ghetto boy (Mmm)
I done lived my [Am]life up in the, ghetto
Mama workin' [F]hours
Tryina feed a, family
Daddy's in and out
Takin' baths with' broken showers
[Am]Next- door neighbor gave
us the vapors
Call[F]in' cops, cause we known to plot
Break in they home,
on some bogus capers
[Am]But I never thought
that it would affect me later
[F]Until I seen the hustle,
when niggas ridin' stretch Navigators
[Am]But, more now then later,
I should come up
Cause I [F]seen my homie on the block,
slangin' rocks
And then his spot get gunned [Am]up
I never visioned it'd be homicide
[F]Because they told me he'll live
That's what they said when
my homie Boosie died
[Am]Could all these millions bring
my nigga back?
[F]Could all these millions feed children?
Could all these millions
make my spirit fat?
[Am]Would all my friends become my enemies?
[F]When my family becomes astonished
Will my strengths becomes
an enemy?
Is this "pre[Am]tend to be?
[F]A vivid and magically?
A vivid and magically
I wonder, I wonder
I [Am]won der,
whoooooaa- ooohhh- oaahhhhh
I wonder [F]what my life would be if I
[Am]Had that paaaper (Had that paper)
I'm just a ghetto [F]boy (Ohhh, ohhh)
A little ghetto boy (If I liiive)
Now if [Am]I live on top of
the world (The[F]world)
Shinin' like, diamonds and pearls
(Diamonds and [Am]peaaarls, yeah)
Still a ghetto [F]boy (Mmm)
A little ghetto boy
[Am]Back in the days, when I was poor
I'm not [F]poor anymore
But somedays
I said I wish that I was poor again
[Am]Back in the days, when I was poor
I'm not [F]poor anymore
(Da- da- da- da)
But somedays
I said I wish that I was poor again
(Ohhh)
I remember when I [Am]stole deep
When it was cold outside
Sellin' packs and [F]holdin' heat
Run up and I fold in the street
Penitentiary moldin' me
And the city get as cold as, [Am]thugs
I wonder will I come up? Get gunned up?
Turned [F]up? Or anotha' sta- tistic
And my mama just goin', ball- istic
Realistic- ally, [Am]don't wanna do the caper
But I gotta get the paper,
[F]niggas ballin'
'Cause the county judge is callin'
And the lawyer keep stallin'
Why my [Am]niggas keep fallin', victim
To the same old [F]theory?
Another bad outcome,
leavin' mothers just out- done
Then it suddenly just [Am]sinked in
That my nigga just died last weekend,
tears rollin'
[F]And I'm goin' off the deep end
But I gotta stay stong, for the mothers
and the kids
Just standin' there [Am]look
in' at the chalk line
In his hand was a cocked nine
Now [F]should I walk a straight line?
'Cause "Time After Time"
I just wanna rewind, and talk to you
At the [Am]grave site, gave it to 'em
every day and night
But it's alright,
[F]and I really wanna talk to you
I really wanna talk to you (Just really wanna
talk to you)
Wassup junior, I've been waitin'
to say this for a long time
I love you nigga, and I miss you
[Am]I wonder what my life
[F]would be if I (Whoooaa)
Had [Am]that paaaper (Whooaa)
I'm just a ghetto boy
[F](My life would be)
A little ghetto boy (If I liiive)
Now if [Am]I live on top of the world
[F]Shinin' like, diamonds and pearls
(Diamonds and [Am]peaaarls, yeah)
Still a ghetto [F]boy (Mmm)
A little ghetto boy (Ohhh)