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Track: The Ghetto
Artist: Donny Hathaway
Album: Everything Is Everything

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Name: Donny Hathaway
Spotify Genres: soul, classic soul
Followers: 649,918
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Biography

Donny Hathaway was an American R&B and Soul singer, keyboardist, composer, arranger, and producer. Born: 1 October 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died: 13 January 1979 in New York City, New York, USA (aged 33). Rolling stone magazine describes him as a legend of soul music. Among his most popular songs are "A Song for You", "The Ghetto", "Someday We'll All Be Free", "For All We Know" and Some duets with soul singer [a=Roberta Flack] "Where Is the Love", "The Closer I Get to You" and "Back Together Again". It is worth mentioning that another great success is the Christmas Song "This Christmas" Being successfully covered by other singers of various genres.

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Release: Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto
Year: 1969
Genres: Funk / Soul
Styles: Funk

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LYRICS

Yes, this is the ghetto, sure enough now [Hathaway]
Don't you know that's all right yeah, yeah
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto [background singers]
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto

The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto

Wait a minute [Hathaway]
No you ain't doin' what you're suppose to
You doin' what you wanna do
But you know you, [Indiscernable]

The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto [Background singers, Hathaway]
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto

The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto

The ghetto, talkin' 'bout the ghetto
The ghetto, talkin' 'bout the ghetto
The ghetto, talkin' 'bout the ghetto
The ghetto, talkin' 'bout the ghetto

The ghetto, talkin' 'bout the ghetto
The ghetto, talkin' 'bout the ghetto
The ghetto, talkin' 'bout the ghetto
The ghetto, talkin' 'bout the ghetto

I'm talkin' 'bout the ghetto
I'm talkin' 'bout the ghetto
Can you all dig it out there?
Can you dig it?