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
   On 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 paradies
   With angels wings and still somehow
   It makes me feel
   Like ice
  
   Tell me there's a heaven
   Tell that it's true
   Tell me that there's a reason
   Why I'm seeing what I do
   Tell me there's a heaven
   Where all those people go
   Tell me that they're 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 bone
   Is a step along the way
   That 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 in pain
   And I'm watching them suffer
   Don't tell that little girl
   Tell me