[Intro]

[?]

Life hard but don't give up
Me suffer like dawg, but me hold it up
Regular me chat from the hungry road
Prosperity after the drought

[Chorus]
Ghetto youth
Hold the faith and pray
Jah jah nah give you more than you can bare
Me have to tell the ghetto youth them, hold on
When me a remember where me a come from
(ahhoo)
One pants, one shoes, one dutty lean clarks
One pants, one shoes, one dutty lean clarks
Hold thе faith and pray, dno't stop
Rain no fall from one man {?]

[Verse 1]
Life is a long race, but a babylon a try turn it inna rat racе
Set we like crab inna crackers bag
Make your black brother want you fi stay same place
Remember the [?] is against the black race
Remember say them deal with crack, then give you the aids
[?], pon another grave
Them can't put a sunder what jah jah ordained
[Bridge]
Me grow a portmore and the garrison did hot
Me make it inna life, but me don't buss a shot
When the temptation come inna me way
Me say get the behind, ghetto youth prudent
Nuff of them when me and them grow up
Left whole heap of shell, me nuh mean peanut
Now nuff of them inna prison, nuff underground
But me never want trod that way

[Chorus]
Ghetto youth
Hold the faith and pray
Jah jah nah give you more than you can bare
Me have to tell the ghetto youth them, hold on
When me a remember where me a come from
(ahhoo)
One pants, one shoes, one dutty lean clarks
One pants, one shoes, one dutty lean clarks
Hold the faith and pray, don't stop
Rain no fall from one man {?]

[Verse 2]
Me great granny gon gon, and she school me
Me mother [?}, me aunty jullie
Tell me say me nuh fi be no badman like [?]
Me fi be a good youth like moony
From me a little bwoy stardom was inna me dreams
Fi be a big dj weh groovy
Be a top actor, weh star nuff movie
Nah go be a badman make police shoot me
[Bridge]
Me grow a portmore and the garrison did hot
Me make it inna life, but me don't buss a shot
When the temptation come inna me way
Me say get the behind, ghetto youth prudent
Nuff of them when me and them grow up
Left whole heap of shell, me nuh mean peanut
Now nuff of them inna prison, nuff underground
But me never want trod that way

[Chorus]
Ghetto youth
Hold the faith and pray
Jah jah nah give you more than you can bare
Me have to tell the ghetto youth them, hold on
When me a remember where me a come from
(ahhoo)
One pants, one shoes, one dutty lean clarks
One pants, one shoes, one dutty lean clarks
Hold the faith and pray, don't stop
Rain no fall from one man {?]

[Verse 1]

[Bridge/Outro]