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

Tell me there's a Heaven

Tell me that it's true

Tell me there's a reason

Why I'm seein' 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

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 lookin'

At the father and the son

And I'm lookin'

At the mother and the daughter

And I'm watchin' them in tears of pain

And I'm watchin' them suffer

Don't tell that little girl

Tell me

Tell me there's a Heaven

Tell me that it's true

Tell me there's a reason

Why I'm seein' 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