Intro
Fm
[Verse]
A#m7 D#sus4 G#
The little girl she said to me
A#m7 D#sus4 G#maj7
What are these things that I can see
A#m7 D#sus4 G#
Each night when I come home from school
A#m7 D#sus4 G#
When mama calls me in for tea
A#m7 D#sus4 G#
Oh every night a baby dies
A#m7 D#sus4 G#maj7
And every night a mama cries
A#m7 D#sus4 G#maj7
What makes those men do what they do
A#m7 D#sus4 G#
To make that person black and blue
C#maj7 D#9 G#
Grandpa says their happy now
C#maj7 D# G#
They sit with God in paradise
C#maj7 D# G#
With angels' wings and still somehow
C#maj7 C#9 Fm
It makes me feel like ice
[Chorus]
G#
Tell me there's a heaven
G# A#m7
Tell me that it's true
D#sus4
Tell me there's a reason
C# G#
Why I'm seeing what I do
G#
Tell me there's a heaven
G# A#m7
Where all those people go
D#sus4
Tell me they're all happy now
C# G#
Papa tell me that it's so
[Interlude]
Fm
[Verse]
A#m7 D#sus4 G#
So do I tell her that it's true
A#m7 D#sus4 G#maj7
That there's a place for me and you
A#m7 D#sus4 G#
Where hungry children smile and say
A#m7 D#sus4 G#
We wouldn't have no other way
A#m7 D#sus4 G#maj7
That every painful crack of bones
A#m7 D#sus4 G#
Is a step along the way
A#m7 C# G#maj7 Fm7
Every wrong done is a game plan
A#m7 D#sus4 G#
To that great and joyful day
C#maj7 D#9 G#
And I'm looking at the father and the son
C#maj7 D#9 G#
And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter
Fm
And I'm watching them in tears of pain
Fm
And I'm watching them suffer
Fm
Don't tell that little girl
D#9
Tell me
[Chorus]
G#
Tell me there's a heaven
G#
Tell me that it's true
D#sus4
Tell me there's a reason
C# G#
Why I'm seeing what I do
G#
Tell me there's a heaven
G# A#m7
Where all those people go
D#sus4
Tell me they're all happy now
C# G#
Papa tell me that it's so