Intro
Cm
[Verse]
Fm7 A#sus4 D#
The little girl she said to me
Fm7 A#sus4 D#maj7
What are these things that I can see
Fm7 A#sus4 D#
Each night when I come home from school
Fm7 A#sus4 D#
When mama calls me in for tea
Fm7 A#sus4 D#
Oh every night a baby dies
Fm7 A#sus4 D#maj7
And every night a mama cries
Fm7 A#sus4 D#maj7
What makes those men do what they do
Fm7 A#sus4 D#
To make that person black and blue
G#maj7 A#9 D#
Grandpa says their happy now
G#maj7 A# D#
They sit with God in paradise
G#maj7 A# D#
With angels' wings and still somehow
G#maj7 G#9 Cm
It makes me feel like ice
[Chorus]
D#
Tell me there's a heaven
D# Fm7
Tell me that it's true
A#sus4
Tell me there's a reason
G# D#
Why I'm seeing what I do
D#
Tell me there's a heaven
D# Fm7
Where all those people go
A#sus4
Tell me they're all happy now
G# D#
Papa tell me that it's so
[Interlude]
Cm
[Verse]
Fm7 A#sus4 D#
So do I tell her that it's true
Fm7 A#sus4 D#maj7
That there's a place for me and you
Fm7 A#sus4 D#
Where hungry children smile and say
Fm7 A#sus4 D#
We wouldn't have no other way
Fm7 A#sus4 D#maj7
That every painful crack of bones
Fm7 A#sus4 D#
Is a step along the way
Fm7 G# D#maj7 Cm7
Every wrong done is a game plan
Fm7 A#sus4 D#
To that great and joyful day
G#maj7 A#9 D#
And I'm looking at the father and the son
G#maj7 A#9 D#
And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter
Cm
And I'm watching them in tears of pain
Cm
And I'm watching them suffer
Cm
Don't tell that little girl
A#9
Tell me
[Chorus]
D#
Tell me there's a heaven
D#
Tell me that it's true
A#sus4
Tell me there's a reason
G# D#
Why I'm seeing what I do
D#
Tell me there's a heaven
D# Fm7
Where all those people go
A#sus4
Tell me they're all happy now
G# D#
Papa tell me that it's so