Akon – Ghetto (Guitar)

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Album Trouble (2004) Only two chords throughout the song INTRO Gm F
Gm   F      Gm        F      Gm     F  
Ghetto, Ghetto,  Ghetto, Ghetto livin
VERSE 1
Gm                          F
These streets remind me of quicksand 

           Gm                   F
When your on it you keep goin' down - goin' down

            Gm
And there's no one to hold on to

            F
And there's no one to pull you out

             Gm
You keep on fallin'

                         F
And no one can here you callin'

                         Gm
So you end up self-destructin'

                                              F                                    Gm
On the corner with the tuli on the waist line just got outta the bing doin' state time

                                    F
Teeth marks on my back from the canine

                                       Gm
Dark memories of when there was no sunshine

                          F
They said that I wouldn't make it

                      Gm
I remember like yesterday (hey)

                      F
Holdin on to what God gave me
CHORUS 'cause that's the life when you're
Gm
Living in the ghetto and

F
Eating in the ghetto or

Gm                   F
Sleeping in the ghetto
Cause thats the life when ur
Gm
Living in the ghetto and

F
Eating in the ghetto or

Gm                 F
Sleeping in the ghetto
VERSE 2
Gm                  F                                  Gm
No need to cherish luxuries 'cause everythin' come and go

                               F
Even the life that you have is borrowed

                               Gm
'cause you're not promised tomorrow

                         F               
So live your life as if everyday's gonna be your last

Gm
Once you move forward can't go back

F
Best prepare to remove your past

Gm
Cause you gotta be willin' to pray

            F                                     Gm
Yeah there gotta be there gotta be a better way -oh
Yeah you gotta be willin to pray
           F                                       Gm
Yeah there gotta be there gotta be a better way -hey

                                       F
Whoever said that this struggle would stop today

                        Gm
A lot of niggas dead or locked away

                      F
Teenage Women growing up with AIDS
CHORUS That's the life when you're
Gm
Living in the ghetto and

F
Eating in the ghetto or

Gm                   F
Sleeping in the ghetto
Cause thats the life when ur
Gm
Living in the ghetto and

F
Eating in the ghetto or

Gm                 F
Sleeping in the ghetto
BRIDGE
     Gm
Gun shots every night in the ghetto

         F
Crooked cops on sight in the ghetto

       Gm                            F
Every day is a fight in the ghetto oh oh oh oh oh

    Gm
Got kids to feed in the ghetto

       F
Selling coke and weed in the ghetto

      Gm                                  F
Every day somebody bleeds in the ghetto oh oh oh oh oh
CHORUS That's the life when you're
Gm
Living in the ghetto and

F
Eating in the ghetto or

Gm                   F
Sleeping in the ghetto
Cause thats the life when ur
Gm
Living in the ghetto and

F
Eating in the ghetto or

Gm                 F
Sleeping in the ghetto