Tom: C
C Dm
Willie, what can I say to you
G F
to hold true in your changing life?
C Dm
You've come into a cruel world
G F
little girls can lose their way in the growing night
C F C F
I hope you'll be alright
C Dm
Willie, try to stay a child sometime
G F
for as long as you feel you can learn
C Dm
Babies all turn to people
Gm F Am Cm7 D
and people can really be strange
G Gmaj7 E F
they change and, changing, bring pain
Bm
Try to treat your parents well because they care
Em
and what more can you do?
C#m
When you find your lovers, be good to them
C
as you hope they'll be to you
G Am Am7
be honest
F Dm
be true
C Dm
Willie, you are the future
G F
all our lives, in the end are in your hands
C Dm
Life's hard now; you know it gets harder
G F
and hope is but a single strand
C
we pass it on and hope you'll understand
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C F Dm G
Em C Fsus2 Csus2
C F C F
Bm
We know that we do it wrong
Em
we're not so strong and not so sure at all
C#m
groping in our blindness
C#m
we may seem big now but, really, we're so
C G Am G
small and alone and searching for a home
F Dm
in the night
C Dm
Meanwhile you're still a baby
G
you'll be a lady soon enough
F
and then you will feel the burn
C Dm
So hold my words: people all turn to children
Gm F Am Cm7 D
spiteful children, and they're really so cruel
G
cruel fools!
Gmaj7 E F
Just follow your own rules
C C
don't think that I'm silly, Willie
C C C
if I say I hope that there is hope for you
