Intro
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[Verse]
F#m7 Bsus4 E
The little girl she said to me
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What are these things that I can see
F#m7 Bsus4 E
Each night when I come home from school
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When mama calls me in for tea
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Oh every night a baby dies
F#m7 Bsus4 Emaj7
And every night a mama cries
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What makes those men do what they do
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To make that person black and blue
Amaj7 B9 E
Grandpa says their happy now
Amaj7 B E
They sit with God in paradise
Amaj7 B E
With angels' wings and still somehow
Amaj7 A9 C#m
It makes me feel like ice
[Chorus]
E
Tell me there's a heaven
E F#m7
Tell me that it's true
Bsus4
Tell me there's a reason
A E
Why I'm seeing what I do
E
Tell me there's a heaven
E F#m7
Where all those people go
Bsus4
Tell me they're all happy now
A E
Papa tell me that it's so
[Interlude]
C#m
[Verse]
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So do I tell her that it's true
F#m7 Bsus4 Emaj7
That there's a place for me and you
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Where hungry children smile and say
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We wouldn't have no other way
F#m7 Bsus4 Emaj7
That every painful crack of bones
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Is a step along the way
F#m7 A Emaj7 C#m7
Every wrong done is a game plan
F#m7 Bsus4 E
To that great and joyful day
Amaj7 B9 E
And I'm looking at the father and the son
Amaj7 B9 E
And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter
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And I'm watching them in tears of pain
C#m
And I'm watching them suffer
C#m
Don't tell that little girl
B9
Tell me
[Chorus]
E
Tell me there's a heaven
E
Tell me that it's true
Bsus4
Tell me there's a reason
A E
Why I'm seeing what I do
E
Tell me there's a heaven
E F#m7
Where all those people go
Bsus4
Tell me they're all happy now
A E
Papa tell me that it's so