In the ghetto. Elvis Presley. Vídeo, letra e información.

En 1969, un año después del nacimiento de su hija Lisa Marie e iniciando una época de inquietud e incomodidad en su carrera artística, Elvis estrena ‘In the Ghetto’, el tema de Mac Davis que la niña que contaba sólo un año en ese estreno interpreta años más tarde junto a su padre con el fin de recaudar fondos para la Fundación Presley.

Pero no sólo Lisa Marie versiona este éxito de Elvis, The Cramberries o Dolly Parton también cantaron la historia del niño que crece en un gueto de Chicago y muere a golpe de disparo.

As the snow flies
on a cold and gray chicago mornin’
a poor little baby child is born
in the ghetto
and his mama cries
‘cause if there’s one thing that she don’t need
it’s another hungry mouth to feed
in the ghetto
people, don’t you understand
the child needs a helping hand
or he’ll grow to be an angry young man some day
take a look at you and me,
are we too blind to see,
do we simply turn our heads
and look the other way
well the world turns
and a hungry little boy with a runny nose
plays in the street as the cold wind blows
in the ghetto
and his hunger burns
so he starts to roam the streets at night
and he learns how to steal
and he learns how to fight
in the ghetto
then one night in desperation
a young man breaks away
he buys a gun, steals a car,
tries to run, but he don’t get far
and his mama cries
as a crowd gathers ‘round an angry young man
face down on the street with a gun in his hand
in the ghetto
as her young man dies,
on a cold and gray chicago mornin’,
another little baby child is born
in the ghetto