"Ghetto Child" lyrics

[Shaggy (Joe):]
All the ghettos around the world, dig this
Ghetto, Fabulous, Joe
Shaggy!
(All the children sing)

I'm a ghetto child
I'm a ghetto child

[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 who sold drugs for dough
But I don't intend to go down that road

[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

[Joe (Shaggy):]
All the ghettos around the world, dig this

[Joe:]
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

[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)

[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

[Joe (Shaggy):]
(Hey, yo)
(Look at me in a different light)
(That's right)
(Spare me all about those stereotypes)
Ain't no madness that'll bring me down
Gonna take this life and turn it around
(That's right
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

[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)

[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

[Joe:]
Let's go to church now
Take me to church now

[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

[Joe:]
A ghetto child
Sing a song for me
Sing a song for me
Everybody sing it now

[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

[Joe:]
So, I can see the best in me, can you?

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