Tell Me There's A Heaven

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