Chords with lyrics
Intro:
B minorBm
Verse:
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 D MajorD
The little girl she said to me
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 Dmaj7Dmaj7
What are these things that I can see
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 D MajorD
Each night when I come home from school
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 D MajorD
When mama calls me in for tea
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 D MajorD
Oh every night a baby dies
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 Dmaj7Dmaj7
And every night a mama cries
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 Dmaj7Dmaj7
What makes those men do what they do
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 D MajorD
To make that person black and blue
Gmaj7Gmaj7 A9A9 D MajorD
Grandpa says their happy now
Gmaj7Gmaj7 A augmentedA D MajorD
They sit with God in paradise
Gmaj7Gmaj7 A augmentedA D MajorD
With angels' wings and still somehow
Gmaj7Gmaj7 G9G9 B minorBm
It makes me feel like ice
Chorus:
D MajorD
Tell me there's a heaven
D MajorD E minor 7Em7
Tell me that it's true
Asus4Asus4
Tell me there's a reason
G+G D MajorD
Why I'm seeing what I do
D MajorD
Tell me there's a heaven
D MajorD E minor 7Em7
Where all those people go
Asus4Asus4
Tell me they're all happy now
G+G D MajorD
Papa tell me that it's so
Interlude:
B minorBm
Verse:
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 D MajorD
So do I tell her that it's true
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 Dmaj7Dmaj7
That there's a place for me and you
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 D MajorD
Where hungry children smile and say
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 D MajorD
We wouldn't have no other way
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 Dmaj7Dmaj7
That every painful crack of bones
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 D MajorD
Is a step along the way
E minor 7Em7 G+G Dmaj7Dmaj7 Bm7Bm7
Every wrong done is a game plan
E minor 7Em7 Asus4Asus4 D MajorD
To that great and joyful day
Gmaj7Gmaj7 A9A9 D MajorD
And I'm looking at the father and the son
Gmaj7Gmaj7 A9A9 D MajorD
And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter
B minorBm
And I'm watching them in tears of pain
B minorBm
And I'm watching them suffer
B minorBm
Don't tell that little girl
A9A9
Tell me
Chorus:
D MajorD
Tell me there's a heaven
D MajorD
Tell me that it's true
Asus4Asus4
Tell me there's a reason
G+G D MajorD
Why I'm seeing what I do
D MajorD
Tell me there's a heaven
D MajorD E minor 7Em7
Where all those people go
Asus4Asus4
Tell me they're all happy now
G+G D MajorD
Papa tell me that it's so