Album: The World Is A Ghetto (1972)

Charted: 7

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• Walkin' down the street
  Smoggy-eyed
  Looking at the sky (the sky)
  Starry-eyed
  Searchin' for a place (searchin' for a place, searchin' for a place)
  Weary-eyed
  Crying in the night (crying in the night)
  Teary-eyed
  
  Don't you know that it's true
  That for me and for you
  The world is a ghetto
  
  Don't you know that it's true
  That for me and for you (that for me and for you)
  The world is a ghetto (oh, oh, oh)
  
  Wonder when I'll find
  Paradise
  Somewhere there's a home (a home)
  Sweet and nice
  Wonder if I'll find
  Happiness
  Never give it up
  Now I guess
  
  Don't you know that it's true
  That for me and for you
  The world is a ghetto
  
  Don't you know that it's true (yeah, hmm)
  That for me and for you (that for me and for you, and for you)
  The world is a ghetto
  
  Don't you know that it's true (hey baby)
  That for me (me)
  And for you (you)
  The world is a ghetto
  
  Don't you know (don't you know)
  That it's true (that it's true)
  That for me (that for me)
  And for you (and for you)
  The world is a ghetto
  
  The world is a ghetto
  Yeah, yeah, yeah
  The world is a ghetto
  You know there's twenty-four hours in the day
  The world is a ghetto
  Hey now
  The world is a ghetto
  The world is a ghetto Writer/s: Charles Miller, Harold Brown, Howard Scott, Jerome Washington, Lee Levitin, LeRoy Jordan, Mark Green, Morris Dickerson, Terry Gray, Thomas Allen
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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Comments: 4

• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 3rd 1973, "The World Is A Ghetto" by War peaked at #7 (for 1 week) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on November 12th and spent 16 weeks on the Top 100...
  It reached #3 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart...
  Was track 2 of side 2 on the group's album of the same name; and on February 11th, 1973 the album peaked at #1 (for 2 weeks) on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart and on February 4th it also reached #1 (for 7 weeks) on Billboard's R&B Top Albums chart...
  "The World Is A Ghetto" was the first of three straight Top 10 records on the Top 100; after this one came, "The Cisco Kid" (#1 for 2 weeks in 1973) followed by "Gypsy Man" (#8, again in 1973).
• Sandra from New York, NyOne of my favorite songs..I listen to it everyday. The world truly is a ghetto.
• Rick from Navarre, FlThis is a great albumn. My wife, kids (in their teens) and I would sing the songs in the car on trips. It is the only albumn we all liked and could actually sing along with. The songs all say so much and are so easy to understand.
• Constance from Dallas, TxWar is one of my favorites. I hate to hear they lost the right to their name. Sad!I was wondering why I see Earth Wind and Fire a lot and not War. War is just as good as EWF just different style. This album cover is amazing. I used to look at it a lot as a girl. I like the boy that is about to kick a man in the but on the cover. Great artistry.

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