Tell Me There's Heaven
The little girl she said to meWhat are these things that I can seeEach night when I come home from schoolAnd mama calls me in for teaOh every night a baby diesAnd every night a mama criesWhat makes those men do what they doTo make that person black and blueGrandpa says their happy nowThey sit with God in paradiseWith angels' wings and still somehowIt makes me feel like ice
Tell me there's a heavenTell me that it's trueTell me there's a reasonWhy I'm seeing what I doTell me there's a heavenWhere all those people goTell me they're all happy nowPapa tell me that it's so
So do I tell her that it's trueThat there's a place for me and youWhere hungry children smile and sayWe wouldn't have no other wayThat every painful crack of bonesIs a step along the wayEvery wrong done is a game planTo that great and joyful day
And I'm looking at the father and the sonAnd I'm looking at the mother and the daughterAnd I'm watching them in tears of painAnd I'm watching them sufferDon't tell that little girlTell meTell me there's a heavenTell me that it's trueTell me there's a reasonWhy I'm seeing what I do
Tell me there's a heavenWhere all those people goTell me they're all happy nowPapa tell me that it's so