Mac Davis In the Ghetto.mpg

[@sylviahildebrant6037]

Heard this song for years and I'm now 70 y.o. it still brings tears to my eyes. Timeless.

[@mdarrenu]

The lyrics of this song are nothing short of amazing.

[@billie877]

The first time I heard Mac Davis sing "BabyBaby Don't Get Hooked on me" it was too late - I already was; I played that song over and over, again and again......RIP, Mac, you were loved by many.🙏❤💚🧡💛❤💚🧡

[@chriscooper1214]

Mac just plays and sings so smooth and it seems like he don't even try hard to sing and play.. it just comes naturally.. especially in this song

[@billcenne7262]

it's still relevant today.............i just pray that someday it may be ancient history.

[@RJ1999x]

Quit voting for Democrats, and the problems will be solved

[@phampshire6864]

@@RJ1999x Quit voting Republicans too.

[@RJ1999x]

@@phampshire6864 Don't see Chicago under Republican leadership

[@sartainja]

Same as problem after 50 years and billions spends on welfare. I thought Obama was going to fix poverty just like LBJ’s Great Society was back in 1960’s.

[@josemorrasge8100]

@@phampshire6864 Republicans have nothing to do with poorly run Democrat Cities! That's all on Democrat failed policies.

[@Baci302]

Mac was a very talented performer. Very underrated

[@garretcastlebright8996]

Mac is a good example of the Troubador . They changed the heart of people 500 years ago and Mac proves they continue to do so today. Caring song.

[@rhonies9229]

I have missed Mac Davis's music. What a gifted talented artist. I remember when this came out.

[@AngryRantsAndStuff]

One of my childhood favorite performers. RIP ✌️

[@roywalker7512]

Such a great song, Life in the ghetto from birth to death in under 3 minutes. Along with the repeated cycle.

[@dannygraham7885]

Its a personal song, because its about a young African man who was his friend!!!

[@roxywesten7128]

This song has just given me the answer to something I’ve been consumed & confused by for nearly 4 years... Its the most powerful song that makes such perfect sense of what’s wrong with our world... 💜

[@jennycooper5364]

but it doesnt give any answers

[@susanmooney8102]

VERY TRUE!

[@sabrinamattin8144]

@@jennycooper5364 Answer: "People, don't you understand A child needs a helping hand Or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day"

[@TheLionOfJudahTheLambOfYHWH]

what a performance- only Mac can write them this good

[@gerrymorin9507]

For sure classic

[@BeverlySherrod]

I don't think I've ever heard a more moving version of this song! It's one of my top 10 of all time songs!

[@hanoitripper1809]

Elvis

[@lancel71]

Very Powerful song Mr. Davis! I've got goosebumps!

[@susanashook3803]

Loved his show he had❤❤❤❤❤❤️❤️⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@thomasfleig3499]

This was one of the best songs Elvis did. So was Memories, which Mac also wrote. I wish Mac would have written another verse, because the song is too short.

[@drbombay91765]

Thanks for the memories, Mac Davis.

[@Jake-wl7mh]

Godspeed Mr. Davis you will be missed..

[@romysan1]

mac davis did some great work. a very humble man. cheers mac!

[@stoxmama]

1973, Mac Davis on stage with just his guitar at Augustana College. Great memories; great songs.

[@ikkenhisatsu7170]

I have no words. Just beautiful.

[@adforbama]

Mac is one of the best singer songwriters who has ever lived. "The vicious cycle" was the original title HIS song. The King has nothing on Mac when it comes to this song.

[@Rusty3659]

He also one of the most under rated and under appreciated entertainers to ever walk onto a stage.

[@Baci302]

Totally agree with both of your posts. Mac was great. No doubt about it.

[@fransmith645]

adforbama DID U REALLY SAY THAT? ITS MACS SONG. N HE DID A OK JOB. BUT ELVIS KILLED IT! AS ALWAYS!

[@jayviviano109]

Mac was awesome. I wouldn't reduce things down to dismissing Elvis as "nothing on Mac when it comes to this". Mac certainly didn't feel that way. Elvis is the one took the risks with this song. Being as famous as he was and this such a powerful social commentary song back at that time, there were people (specifically white people) that didn't want Elvis doing a song like this. Mac appreciated that Elvis ignored those folks and did this song anyway. Also notice the last line of the song that Mac sings here, it was not the way Mac wrote it. What Mac sings here at the end was Elvis's rewrite. Mac said when he heard Elvis recording of the song he thought no line Elvis added to the end of the song was brilliant it wrapped up the story perfectly that he was trying to tell. Nice to see that Mac added Elvis's line onto his own future performances. They both respected each other greatly. Rest in peace to Mac & Elvis.

[@joanntaylor6125]

I love What Mac did with this song it touches you deep inside

[@bus-fun-addict]

Outstanding! What happened to people with class and talent? RIP great legend.

[@albertmcfry6322]

Always loved Mac, he wrote some great songs!

[@brendachurch4573]

Mack Davis is a great singer & song writer I watched his tv show every week it was very entertainer

[@drbombay91765]

Thanks Mac! a song for the ages. And he is great on the nylon string guitar.

[@MrCabimero]

This song gives me chills.

[@galenstone9097]

One of my favorite songwriters of all time.

[@gerrymorin9507]

Fantastic version of his amazing hit

[@cpt4168]

Love this song. Great songwriter and singer... Many people don't know Mac Davis wrote this song!

[@jabmolou]

I agree, many don't know.

[@RayNDeere]

Mac is one of the best songwriters. In the Ghetto, Something's Burning (For the First Edition), Watching Scotty Grow (for Bobby Goldsboro) plus the songs he wrote and sang for hits like Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me

[@billie877]

@@RayNDeere Thank for mentioning some of his other hits - I made a comment above about "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me". That got .me hooked on his songs 🎵‼️ 💯💢🎼🎵‼️🔆

[@Genieoutofbottle]

I was so in love with Mac when I was a teenager!! Love this, thanks!

[@sharongreen1366]

Genieoutofbottle me too !!

[@jessiejames7492]

i remember him singing this on the ed sullivan show many years ago and the number of ovations he had ! fantastic.- very talented

[@sandratessem9980]

Amazing singer and song writer

[@ericsmith8708]

What a beautiful voice nice memories still listening I love this song. How are you Sandra ?

[@dave327ful]

Perhaps Mac Davis' most serious song!

[@dtelled1]

The best of all of us only survives as long as the compassion we provide lasts and not one minute more.

[@RAB19751]

Great song writer and singer. RIP

[@The911sierra]

such an amazing, poignant song which tells so much....

[@jessiejames7492]

yes and things havent changed. saw a news coverage of about 60000 people stranded on the streets in NYs worst winter ever. 25000 of them children...some lost their homes , some homeless, some lost jobs recently...most people in Manhattan the news showed, just walk by them...sad

[@harberguk]

Written almost 45 years ago. Nothing much has changed!

[@Uwill49]

It doesn't change because our politicians won't let it. They use race to divide us.

[@philipbaldwin2078]

Love Mac and all his work.

[@sartainja]

Viva the memory and music of Mac Davis; another great musician gone from this world - sad.

[@nicholadumigan6777]

Pure brilliance

[@neaituppi7306]

I didn't even know he was a musician. I saw him on North Dallas Forty. But I recently saw an album he did around that time, in the thrift store.

[@carolesmith4864]

I hope you bought it and listened to it. Mac Davis wrote some really beautiful songs, many of them for Elvis, but he has a beautiful voice, too.

[@bionicsjw]

This is more relevant today as when it was first written.

[@jessiejoseph1093]

Get well soon, Mac!

[@Arbed6]

This song always made me cry/ Being someone from the ghetto, not the gheTTo. as Elvis sang, Mac Davis really makes you feel the song...

[@chainedmindsasylum]

Sad 😢 This is the world we live in and it doesn't have to be that way 😢

[@mrjinkorea]

Well said. This song always breaks my heart 💔

[@chainedmindsasylum]

@@mrjinkorea It's timely that you commented when I have been considering what good I can do in this world we live in. I guess even the little things add up when many are doing them. I'm still heartbroken too whenever I hear this 💔 Much love ❤️🥀

[@davecornblum]

Great quarterback for North Dallas Forty and an even better songwriter for Elvis!

[@raycooper9806]

True then and still true today. Sad by the cycle continues.

[@WhiteCamry]

Mac Davis, R.I.P.

[@imaculadaconceicao6892]

Li em outro comentário que traduziu para o português assim: -descanse em paz.....

[@theresebabel5879]

this song days it for everyone. The united States needs to start looking at all of the young ones and why crime is the way it is.

[@jandeband]

TRUTH

[@mandykhoo2473]

Fundamental talent

[@charlirfowlerjr]

On a rainy gray Manila day another little hungry child is born in a ghetto......and his parents cry...

[@horaciocapanelli-soto4710]

Manilla Mexico South America Africa Etc, etc

[@Tillyduck]

True then, true today.

[@srfrider1973]

its NOT FAIR and it never stops and im tired of the killing for no other crime than having the wrong color of skin. were all people, when does it stop?

[@srfrider1973]

i just wish it would be over for those who actually live in them, who only have their skin color, which they cant control, for why they are looked down on and made to feel less than anyone else around them. same with the Indians on the reservations. i may have been born with so called white skin, but ive been treated like a N practically my whole life, cuz i dont have any money and i dont buy a lot of things and i care about people, kinda like the one who died on a cross for all of us, and im proud to say not only do i follow him, but i have no money to give any church so you know im poor, honest and proud to be that way. id rather be poor and honest than rich and dishonest, life is too short for anything else.

[@CUPCAKESUGARPIE]

🙌🎼❤️❤️❤️🎼🙌

[@gerwinbokhorst7509]

👌👍👌👍👌👍👌👍👌👍❤

[@mariefrench8058]

still handsome

[@ZeligUbique]

That audience is rapt !

[@OMGwrzM]

past- present and ??

[@philchigges2955]

Anyone can leave the ghetto.

[@charmindarlin]

I cant even begin to tell you all the wet dreams I had over Mac Davis. He's not a bad kisser.

[@The3Stooges]

Alright then...

[@1946mc]

Poignant but I prefer Elvis

[@3233legacy]

Sure. But mac wrote this song. If he hadn't, elvis wouldn't have....

[@tbhv]

except his audience has diminished like 80%.. probably because people like you have just decided to turn their heads and look away..

[@JIMEYZ]

Boooooooooooooooooo