Intro
Am
[Verse]
Dm7 Gsus4 C
The little girl she said to me
Dm7 Gsus4 Cmaj7
What are these things that I can see
Dm7 Gsus4 C
Each night when I come home from school
Dm7 Gsus4 C
When mama calls me in for tea
Dm7 Gsus4 C
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
Dm7 Gsus4 C
To make that person black and blue
Fmaj7 G9 C
Grandpa says their happy now
Fmaj7 G C
They sit with God in paradise
Fmaj7 G C
With angels' wings and still somehow
Fmaj7 F9 Am
It makes me feel like ice
[Chorus]
C
Tell me there's a heaven
C Dm7
Tell me that it's true
Gsus4
Tell me there's a reason
F C
Why I'm seeing what I do
C
Tell me there's a heaven
C Dm7
Where all those people go
Gsus4
Tell me they're all happy now
F C
Papa tell me that it's so
[Interlude]
Am
[Verse]
Dm7 Gsus4 C
So do I tell her that it's true
Dm7 Gsus4 Cmaj7
That there's a place for me and you
Dm7 Gsus4 C
Where hungry children smile and say
Dm7 Gsus4 C
We wouldn't have no other way
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That every painful crack of bones
Dm7 Gsus4 C
Is a step along the way
Dm7 F Cmaj7 Am7
Every wrong done is a game plan
Dm7 Gsus4 C
To that great and joyful day
Fmaj7 G9 C
And I'm looking at the father and the son
Fmaj7 G9 C
And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter
Am
And I'm watching them in tears of pain
Am
And I'm watching them suffer
Am
Don't tell that little girl
G9
Tell me
[Chorus]
C
Tell me there's a heaven
C
Tell me that it's true
Gsus4
Tell me there's a reason
F C
Why I'm seeing what I do
C
Tell me there's a heaven
C Dm7
Where all those people go
Gsus4
Tell me they're all happy now
F C
Papa tell me that it's so