Intro
G#m
[Verse]
C#m7 F#sus4 B
The little girl she said to me
C#m7 F#sus4 Bmaj7
What are these things that I can see
C#m7 F#sus4 B
Each night when I come home from school
C#m7 F#sus4 B
When mama calls me in for tea
C#m7 F#sus4 B
Oh every night a baby dies
C#m7 F#sus4 Bmaj7
And every night a mama cries
C#m7 F#sus4 Bmaj7
What makes those men do what they do
C#m7 F#sus4 B
To make that person black and blue
Emaj7 F#9 B
Grandpa says their happy now
Emaj7 F# B
They sit with God in paradise
Emaj7 F# B
With angels' wings and still somehow
Emaj7 E9 G#m
It makes me feel like ice
[Chorus]
B
Tell me there's a heaven
B C#m7
Tell me that it's true
F#sus4
Tell me there's a reason
E B
Why I'm seeing what I do
B
Tell me there's a heaven
B C#m7
Where all those people go
F#sus4
Tell me they're all happy now
E B
Papa tell me that it's so
[Interlude]
G#m
[Verse]
C#m7 F#sus4 B
So do I tell her that it's true
C#m7 F#sus4 Bmaj7
That there's a place for me and you
C#m7 F#sus4 B
Where hungry children smile and say
C#m7 F#sus4 B
We wouldn't have no other way
C#m7 F#sus4 Bmaj7
That every painful crack of bones
C#m7 F#sus4 B
Is a step along the way
C#m7 E Bmaj7 G#m7
Every wrong done is a game plan
C#m7 F#sus4 B
To that great and joyful day
Emaj7 F#9 B
And I'm looking at the father and the son
Emaj7 F#9 B
And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter
G#m
And I'm watching them in tears of pain
G#m
And I'm watching them suffer
G#m
Don't tell that little girl
F#9
Tell me
[Chorus]
B
Tell me there's a heaven
B
Tell me that it's true
F#sus4
Tell me there's a reason
E B
Why I'm seeing what I do
B
Tell me there's a heaven
B C#m7
Where all those people go
F#sus4
Tell me they're all happy now
E B
Papa tell me that it's so