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This version is from album
'Greatest Hits'
Intro:
D G/D G A
G/D D G A
Verse 1:
D G
The milky way
A D
Upon the heavens
D G A7
Is twinkling just for you
D G F#7 Bm
And Mr. Moon he came by
Em G/A A
To say goodnight to you
D G
I'll sing for you
A D
I'll sing for mother
D G A7
We're praying for the world
D G F#7 Bm
And for the people everywhere
Em G/A A
Gonna show them all we care
Chorus:
D G Em A
Oh my sleeping child the world's so wild
D G Em A7
But you've build your own paradise
D G
That's one reason why
Em A G D/F# Em A
I'll cover you sleeping child
Verse 2:
D G
If all the people
A D
Around the world
D G A7
They had a mind like yours
D G F#7 Bm
We'd have no fighting and no wars
Em G/A A
There would be lasting peace on earth
D G
If all the kings
A D
And all the leaders
D G A
Could see you here this way
D G F#7 Bm
They would hold the earth in their arms
Em G/A A
They would learn to watch you play
Chorus:
D G Em A
Oh my sleeping child the world's so wild
D G Em A7
But you've build your own paradise
D G
That's one reason why
Em A Bbm#5
I'll cover you sleeping child
Bridge:
Bm
(Cover my child)
G D/F#
I'm gonna cover my
A G D/F# A
Sleeping child
G/A
(Keep you away)
D/A A
Keep you away from the world so wild
Em
(Keep you away from the world)
G/A A D G/D G A
(Away from the world so wild)
Coda:
D G Em A
Oh my sleeping child the world's so wild
D G Em A7
But you've build your own paradise
D G
That's one reason why
Em A G
I'll cover you sleeping child
D/F# Em A
(You've build your own, the paradise)
D G Em A
Oh my sleeping child the world's so wild
D G Em A7
But you've build your own paradise
D G
That's one reason why
Em A G D/F# Em A D
I'll cover you sleeping child