{All the ghettos around the world}
  {Dig this}
  {Ghetto Fabulous Joe}
  {Shaggy}
  All the children sing {Uh}
    I'm a ghetto child
  I'm a ghetto child (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
    Just because I'm a ghetto child
  I won't live down to your expectations (No, no)
  Just believe that a ghetto child
  Can rise in the highest celebration (Oh)
  Know that I am a ghetto child
  But I can see the best in me, can you
  I'm a ghetto child
    All the ghettos around the world, dig this
    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
    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)
    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 (Ooh, yeah, ooh)
    {Hey, yo', look at me inna different light}
  {Spare me all about those stereotypes}
  Ain't no madness that'll bring me down
  Gonna take this life and turn it around
    {Now see, 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
    I believe that it can be done (Yeah, oh)
  Gotta start somewhere and I'm that one
  All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)
  All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)
    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 (Oh...oh...oh...)
  Know that I am a ghetto child
  But I can see the best in me, can you
  I'm a ghetto child (Let's go to church now)
    Just because I'm a ghetto child (Uh)
  I won't live down to your expectations (Take me to
  church now)
  Just believe that a ghetto child (Ooh)
  Can rise in the highest celebration (Hey, hey)
  Know that I am a ghetto child (Ooh, yeah)
  But I can see the best in me, can you
  I'm a ghetto child (Hey, ghetto child,
  whoa...oh...ooh...)
    Just because I'm a ghetto child
  I won't live down to your expectations (Sing a song
  for me)
  Just believe that a ghetto child (Sing a song for me)
  Can rise in the highest celebration (Everybody sing it
  now, yeah)
  Know that I am a ghetto child
  But I can see (Ooh, yeah) the best in me, can you (Oh)
  I'm a ghetto child (So I can see the best in me, can
  you)
    It's not where you're from, it's where you're gonna be
  (Hey)
  It's not where you're from, it's where you're gonna be