Chords for Barbra Streisand - 'Children Will Listen' Live

_ _ _ _ [Em] Not long ago, I [G] was [Bbm] putting [Gm] my four-year [C]-old goddaughter to sleep,
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and I [Bb] started to sing her a lullaby.
_ [F] Rock by the tree top, when the wind blows, _ _ when the bough breaks,
the cradle [Bb] will fall.
The cradle will [Gb] fall?
I mean, was I supposed to tell her,
down look on baby, cradle and all?
_ _ [C] What a frightening thought in a [F] song that's been sung to children
for hundreds [Bb] of years to [Bb] soothe them before they go to [F] sleep, right?
_ _ I started to think about the [Bb] fairy [C] tales that we read [Bb] to children,
you know, like Take [Eb] Hansel and Gretel,
[F] where a mother worried about how she and her [Bb] husband
will feed their children in the midst of a famine.
[Eb] And she says, [C] early tomorrow morning,
we will take them into the thickest part of the [G] forest.
They won't be able to find their [Bb] way home, and we'll be rid of them.
[Bb] _ Talk about a dysfunctional [Eb] family.
_ [Bb] _ [Eb] Talk about rejection and abandonment.
What does this say to children?
_ _ [Bb] What do parents say [B] to children that sends them [Bb] into the woods
[F] without them ever leaving home? _
Things like, you're a nuisance, you're a sissy, it's all your fault. _ _ _ _
Care for the things you say, _ _ [Eb] children will listen.
_ [Bb] Care for the things you do, [Eb] children will see.
_ _ [F] And learn. _
_ _ [Bb] Children may not say, [Eb]
but children will listen.
_ [Bb] Children will look to you for [F] which way to turn.
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Lord, watch me.
_ _ [Eb] Careful before you say, [E] listen to me.
_ Children will [Eb] see. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ebm] Careful the wish you make, [E] wishes are children.
_ [Ebm] Careful the path they take, wishes come true.
_ [Gb] Not free. _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] Not just on.
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_ [E] Careful the [B] tear you tear, that is the spell.
_ Children cannot _ _ _ _ _ abuse children, either by [Gb] word or by deed.
[B] Because what's done to [B] them, they will do to society.
But if we give them the love and respect they deserve and educate them properly,
[A] we as a nation will be [Abm] enriched.
We must put children first.
[Abm] And we are so fortunate.
[Gb] _ _ _ We are so fortunate to have a first lady [B] who has fought for
and will continue to fight for the rights of [Ab] children. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Because, because she [Db] knows that we hold tomorrow in our [Ab] hands
when we hold our children [B] in our arms.
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_ _ So guide them but step [E] away, children will [Db] listen.
_ [Gb] Children will look to you [A] for which way to turn.
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Careful [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] before you [Dbm] say, listen to [F] me.
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