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Conheci essa música do Elvis qdo. comprei o CD com os "number one" dele - é spiritual esse estilo?

Gostei um bocado, e achei legal esse cover com a Natalie Merchant e a Tracy ("Fast Car") Chapman.

Vi na Wikipedia que tem uma versão dos Cranberries, vou procurar!

In the Ghetto is a song written by American singer-songwriter Mac Davis and made popular by rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. The song was released in 1969 as a 45 rpm single with Any Day Now as flip side. It is a narrative story of a young boy who grows up in the Chicago ghetto, steals and fights and who is eventually shot and killed.

In the Ghetto was recorded during Elvis' session in the American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It was Elvis' first creative recording session since the '68 Comeback, and the songs recorded here probably owed some of their financial success to that. Other hits recorded at this session were Suspicious Minds, Kentucky Rain, and Don't Cry Daddy. There were initial fears that the song would damage Elvis' reputation for being politically unbiased, but Elvis loved the song and recorded it. Elvis claimed after finally achieving a master take that from then on, he would only do songs that he believed in.