Key: C major•
Verse 1
Am
G
F
C
G
C
The little girl, she said to me
F
G
F
C
What are these things that I can see
F
C
G
Each night when I come home from school
C
F
C
G
When mama calls me in fourteen
C
F
C
Oh every night a baby dies
F
G
And every night a mama cries
C
F
What makes those men do what they do
C
F
G
C
To make that person black and blue
F
G
C
Grandpa says they're happy now
F
G
C
They sit with God in paradise
F
G
C
With angels' an d still somehow,
F
G
Am
it makes me feel, fine ice
C
F
Tell me there's a heaven,
C
Dm
C
tell me that it's true
F
G
C
G
Tell me there's a reason
F
C
why I'm seeing what I do
G
F
Tell me there's a heaven
C
Dm
C
F
where all those people go
G
C
G
Tell me they're all happy now
F
C
Am
F
Am
F
Papa, tell me that it's so
Dm
C
G
So do I tell her that it's true
C
F
G
F
That there's a place for me an d you
G
C
Dm
C
G
C
Where hungry children smile and say
F
Dm
C
G
C
We wouldn't have no other way
F
G
That every painful crack of bones
C
F
C
G
C
Is a step along the way
F
G
Am
Every wrong done is a game plan
Dm
G
C
To that great and joyful day
F
G
And I'm looking at the
F
C
father and the son
F
G
And I'm looking at the mother
F
C
and the daughter
And I'm watching them suffer
Don't tell that little girl,
Dm
Am
Dm
Am
G
tell me
C
F
Tell me there's a heaven
C
Dm
C
Tell me that it's true
F
G
Tell me there's a reason
F
C
Why I'm seeing what I do
G
F
Tell me there's a heaven
C
Dm
C
F
Where all those people go
G
C
G
Tell me they're all happy now
Outro 1
C
G
C
F
G
F
C
F
C
G
C
G
Dm
F
G
Dm
G
F
C
Am
F
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAm G F C Dm
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