That was Elvis Presley's 'In the Ghetto'. *Somebody* must have dug up their 8-tracks. That song went platinum btw. For those of you too young to remember the song it is one of those two-hankey poverty poems. I don't have the lyrics handy but it is about a young single woman who gives birth in the Chicago ghettos ('another little hungry mouth to feed') and her son grows up in poverty and is killed while robbing a store. The song go on to 'another little baby child is born in the ghetto'. So the cycle continues.
I want to see Cartman listening to his mother's records surrounded by all of those wonderful 70's album covers. In particular Neil Diamond, Simon & Garfunkle and KISS. I want to hear Cartman sing 'The Stroke' by Billy Squier. Hey, it was really cool when I was young.
While I was composing this, I did find the lyrics at an Elvis website: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/8250/eplns.html
In the Ghetto
(words & music by Scott Davis)
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 on the street with a gun in his hand In the ghetto
As her young man dies, on a cold and gray Chicago mornin', another little baby child is born In the ghetto