Intro
A#m
[Verse]
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The little girl she said to me
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What are these things that I can see
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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
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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
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Grandpa says their happy now
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They sit with God in paradise
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With angels' wings and still somehow
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It makes me feel like ice
[Chorus]
C#
Tell me there's a heaven
C# D#m7
Tell me that it's true
G#sus4
Tell me there's a reason
F# C#
Why I'm seeing what I do
C#
Tell me there's a heaven
C# D#m7
Where all those people go
G#sus4
Tell me they're all happy now
F# C#
Papa tell me that it's so
[Interlude]
A#m
[Verse]
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So do I tell her that it's true
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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
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That every painful crack of bones
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Is a step along the way
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Every wrong done is a game plan
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To that great and joyful day
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And I'm looking at the father and the son
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And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter
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And I'm watching them in tears of pain
A#m
And I'm watching them suffer
A#m
Don't tell that little girl
G#9
Tell me
[Chorus]
C#
Tell me there's a heaven
C#
Tell me that it's true
G#sus4
Tell me there's a reason
F# C#
Why I'm seeing what I do
C#
Tell me there's a heaven
C# D#m7
Where all those people go
G#sus4
Tell me they're all happy now
F# C#
Papa tell me that it's so