Intro
Gm
[Verse]
Cm7 Fsus4 A#
The little girl she said to me
Cm7 Fsus4 A#maj7
What are these things that I can see
Cm7 Fsus4 A#
Each night when I come home from school
Cm7 Fsus4 A#
When mama calls me in for tea
Cm7 Fsus4 A#
Oh every night a baby dies
Cm7 Fsus4 A#maj7
And every night a mama cries
Cm7 Fsus4 A#maj7
What makes those men do what they do
Cm7 Fsus4 A#
To make that person black and blue
D#maj7 F9 A#
Grandpa says their happy now
D#maj7 F A#
They sit with God in paradise
D#maj7 F A#
With angels' wings and still somehow
D#maj7 D#9 Gm
It makes me feel like ice
[Chorus]
A#
Tell me there's a heaven
A# Cm7
Tell me that it's true
Fsus4
Tell me there's a reason
D# A#
Why I'm seeing what I do
A#
Tell me there's a heaven
A# Cm7
Where all those people go
Fsus4
Tell me they're all happy now
D# A#
Papa tell me that it's so
[Interlude]
Gm
[Verse]
Cm7 Fsus4 A#
So do I tell her that it's true
Cm7 Fsus4 A#maj7
That there's a place for me and you
Cm7 Fsus4 A#
Where hungry children smile and say
Cm7 Fsus4 A#
We wouldn't have no other way
Cm7 Fsus4 A#maj7
That every painful crack of bones
Cm7 Fsus4 A#
Is a step along the way
Cm7 D# A#maj7 Gm7
Every wrong done is a game plan
Cm7 Fsus4 A#
To that great and joyful day
D#maj7 F9 A#
And I'm looking at the father and the son
D#maj7 F9 A#
And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter
Gm
And I'm watching them in tears of pain
Gm
And I'm watching them suffer
Gm
Don't tell that little girl
F9
Tell me
[Chorus]
A#
Tell me there's a heaven
A#
Tell me that it's true
Fsus4
Tell me there's a reason
D# A#
Why I'm seeing what I do
A#
Tell me there's a heaven
A# Cm7
Where all those people go
Fsus4
Tell me they're all happy now
D# A#
Papa tell me that it's so