<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Music video </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> "In the Ghetto" (audio) on YouTube </Td> </Tr> <P> "In the Ghetto" (originally titled "The Vicious Circle") is a song written by Mac Davis and made famous by Elvis Presley, who had a major comeback hit with it in 1969 . It was released in 1969 as a 45 rpm single with "Any Day Now" as the flip side . </P> <P> It is a narrative of generational poverty: a boy is born to a mother who already has more children than she can feed in the ghetto of Chicago . The boy grows up hungry, steals and fights, purchases a gun and steals a car, attempts to run, but is shot and killed just as his own child is born . The song implies that the newborn will meet the same fate, continuing the cycle of poverty and violence . The feeling of an inescapable circle is created by the structure of the song, with its simple, stark phrasing; by the repetition of the phrase "in the ghetto" as the close of every fourth line; and finally by the repetition of the first verse's "and his mama cries" just before the beginning and as the close of the last verse . It is played in the key of B flat . </P>

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