The little girl she said to me What are these things that I can see? Each night when I come home from school When momma calls me in for tea
Oh ev'ry night a baby dies And ev'ry night a momma 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 angel's 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 ev'ry painful crack of bones Is a step along the way Ev'ry wrong done is a game plan To that great and joyful day
An' I'm lookin' at the father and the son An' I'm lookin' at the mother and the daughter An' I'm watchin' them in tears of pain An' 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