Intro
Em
[Verse]
Am7 Dsus4 G
The little girl she said to me
Am7 Dsus4 Gmaj7
What are these things that I can see
Am7 Dsus4 G
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
Am7 Dsus4 Gmaj7
And every night a mama cries
Am7 Dsus4 Gmaj7
What makes those men do what they do
Am7 Dsus4 G
To make that person black and blue
Cmaj7 D9 G
Grandpa says their happy now
Cmaj7 D G
They sit with God in paradise
Cmaj7 D G
With angels' wings and still somehow
Cmaj7 C9 Em
It makes me feel like ice
[Chorus]
G
Tell me there's a heaven
G Am7
Tell me that it's true
Dsus4
Tell me there's a reason
C G
Why I'm seeing what I do
G
Tell me there's a heaven
G Am7
Where all those people go
Dsus4
Tell me they're all happy now
C G
Papa tell me that it's so
[Interlude]
Em
[Verse]
Am7 Dsus4 G
So do I tell her that it's true
Am7 Dsus4 Gmaj7
That there's a place for me and you
Am7 Dsus4 G
Where hungry children smile and say
Am7 Dsus4 G
We wouldn't have no other way
Am7 Dsus4 Gmaj7
That every painful crack of bones
Am7 Dsus4 G
Is a step along the way
Am7 C Gmaj7 Em7
Every wrong done is a game plan
Am7 Dsus4 G
To that great and joyful day
Cmaj7 D9 G
And I'm looking at the father and the son
Cmaj7 D9 G
And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter
Em
And I'm watching them in tears of pain
Em
And I'm watching them suffer
Em
Don't tell that little girl
D9
Tell me
[Chorus]
G
Tell me there's a heaven
G
Tell me that it's true
Dsus4
Tell me there's a reason
C G
Why I'm seeing what I do
G
Tell me there's a heaven
G Am7
Where all those people go
Dsus4
Tell me they're all happy now
C G
Papa tell me that it's so