Heaven help us
all
G - G
G G7
C
1. Heaven help the child who
never had a home,
G G7 C
Heaven help the girl who walks
the street alone,
G G7 C
Heaven help the roses, if the
bombs begin to fall,
D G -
C - G - C
Heaven help us all.
G G7 C D
2. Heaven help the black man,
if he struggles one more day,
G G7 C D
Heaven help the white man, if
he turns his back away,
G G7
C
Heaven help the man who kicks
the man who has to crawl,
D
C G
Heaven help us all.
G
G7 C - D - G G7 C D G
Heaven help us a..............ll, heaven help us all, help us all !
G G7 Am
B7 Em D A D
Heaven help us, Lord, hear our
call when we call, oh, yeah !
(orig. moves up half a note
to capo 2nd here)
G G7 C
D
3. Heaven help the boy who
won't reach twenty-one,
G G7
C D
Heaven help the man who gave
that boy a gun,
G G7 C
Heaven help the people with
their backs against the wall,
D C G
Lord, Heaven help us all.
G7 G C - G
C G
Heaven help us all, oh, yeah ! Oh,
oh yeah !
G
G7 C - D - G G7 C
D G
Heaven help us a..............ll, heaven help us all, help us all !
G
G7 Am B7
Em
D A D
Heaven help us, Lord, hear our
call when we call, oh !
G - C - G - C
+ Help us all !
G C
4. Now, I lay me down before I
go to sleep,
G
C
in a troubled world, I pray the Lord to keep,
G C
keep
hatred from the mighty, and the mighty from the small,
D
C G
heaven
help us all !
G
G7 C - D - G G7 C
D G
Heaven help us a..............ll, heaven help us all, help us all !
+ repeat with variations (2x) and fade ....
(orig. = capo 1st) (Stevie Wonder)