Barbra Streisand – Children Will Listen (Guitar)

G#
How do you say to your child in the night

C#                              G#
Nothing is all black but then nothing is all white?

G#
How do you say it will all be alright

          D#             F7
When you know that it mightn't be true?

D#           A#
What do you do?

A#
Careful the things you say

D#
Children will listen

A#
Careful the things you do

D#
Children will see

A#
Children may not obey

      D#
But children will listen

A#
Children will look to you

     D#           F#
For which way to turn

  A#             F
To learn what to be

Gm       Cm
Careful before you say

                F7   Fm D#
Children will listen

B
Careful the wish you make

E
Wishes are children

B
Careful the path they take

             E    A
Wishes come true

Bm
Not free

B
Careful the spell you cast

     E
Not just on children

B
Sometimes the spell may last

 E                Em
Past what you can see

G    B
And turn against you...

             C#m
Careful the tale you tell

                E
Children will listen...

G
How can you say to a child who's in flight

G
Don't slip away and I won't hold so tight?

G                                     Dm             Em
What can you say that no matter how slight won't be misunderstood?

A
What do you leave to your child when you're dead

D
Only what ever you put in it's head

A                 A          Em
Things that your mother and father had said

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Which were left to them too

         B                     E
Careful what you say, children will listen

B                                     E       C#m
Careful you do it too, children will see and learn

B
Guide them but step away

 E
Children will glisten

B
Tamper with what is true

     Em            B
And children will turn

B         C#m
Careful before you say

           E
"listen to me."

                F#m
Children will listen...

C#m             F#m
Children will listen!

B
Children, children will listen