Ghetto Child Lyrics - Singles - The Spinners

When I was seventeen 

I ran away from home and from everything 

I had ever known 

I was sick and tired 

Living in a town 

Filled with narrow minds and hate 

They used to laugh at me 

The children called me names 

I would ran and hide 

Feelin' so ashamed just for being born 

I was just a boy punished for a crime 

That was not mine 

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Life ain't so easy 

When you're a ghetto child 

Oh baby, 

Life ain't so easy 

When you're a ghetto child 

No one tried to understand 

Papa did the best a man could do 

A child reality 

Is paid for by his folks fancy fairy tales 

Are born and sold by those 

Who can well afford 

Time to make believe 

Childhood dreams can still come true 

Uh, huh- huh- huh 

So I've been wandering 

Traveling all around 

Guess it ain't my style 

To live in just one town 

Still I'll never know 

Why a child is blamed, ridiculed and shamed 

We're all the same 

Life ain't so easy 

When you're a ghetto child 

I'm a witness that life ain't so easy 

When you're a ghetto child, yeah 

Ooh, ooh, yeah 

Life ain't so easy 

When you're a ghetto child child 

Oh, baby 

Life ain't so easy 

When you're a ghetto child 

Life ain't so easy 

Yeah, hey, hey 

When you're a ghetto child 

Life can be rough 

Life ain't so easy 

When you're a ghetto child 

The going gets tough 

Yeah, but remember 

Life ain't so easy 

When you're a ghetto child 

Things gotta change, gotta change, yeah, yeah! 

Life ain't so easy 

When you're a ghetto child 

Whoa, oh, oh, whoa, 

I'm a ghetto boy 

Life ain't so easy