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[Verse]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
And learnA#
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
"listen to me." 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
That is the spell 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
C#m F#m F#
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
Oh!B
Guide them but step away
E
Children will glisten
B
Tamper with what is true
Em B
And children will turn
If just to be freeB 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
F#m A Em B
