Elvis Presley   In The Ghetto (The Vicious Circle)   ==================================  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 in the street with a gun in his hand  In the ghetto  As her young man dies,  on a cold and grey Chicago mornin',  another little baby child is born  In the ghetto  And his mama cries  In the ghetto  In the ghetto