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"In the Life of Chico"

Date range assessed by the fact that one of the five songs included in the notebook (archived) (“You Not Me”) is an early version of the 1980 song “This Had to Be” he wrote for The Brothers Johnson.

Michael Jackson, transcript of lyrics

Farming, starvation, hunger, poverty, a South American Family

Chico, his sister, brother, mother live a force in an old ???

??? is killing the people

and the holy ?? has made ?? supply

?? the father of Chico

went off for help but never came back

Chico 9 years old is left to lead as its family man of the house

hope? for the family ??

so he ?? all day ???

so they ???

Chico ???

[...]

Chico keeps his pride a real man

he decide to go off to the city far away

to challenge from the ?? to build a ???

??? his father's get the money ????

but droughted heat and ?? killed Chico when he was 10.

a ?? born ???

??? his bones in the sun to ???

but god bless Chico

keeps her pride, faith is

Chico man of man

[notice of michael as last line:]

But bless Chico faith

cause in gods heaven Chico his ?? place

Chris Cadman, “Michael Jackson the Maestro”

One of five songs hand-written by Michael… lyrics included in a personal notebook, with young actor Mark Lester on the cover, that formed part of a 10,000+ piece collection of Jackson memorabilia purchased by Universal Express and some of its entertainment partners, in November 2006.