Chords for Innovators - Prayer of the Children

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_ _ _ _ _ The next composition anticipates an innovation yet to come.
_ The ongoing civil war in the former Yugoslavia is an unspeakable horror,
especially for the children involved.
_ Remember a few years back the young boy in Bosnia
whose face was seriously damaged by a landmine?
A cry went out, he was flown to the Miami Children's Hospital
and after miraculous reconstructive surgery, sent home with a new face.
A month later, he was killed by an artillery barrage.
The following hymn, Prayer of the Children, is dedicated to that boy
and all other children caught up in the ravages of war and oppression.
_ Help me feel the love again in my own land.
This is the Prayer of the Children. _ _ _
Can you hear _ _ _ _ _ the prayer of the children?
_ _ _ _ Abandon me [Em] _ _ [C] in the shadow of an [D] unknown.
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Empty _ eyes _ with no more [G] tears to cry.
_ Turn [C] in heavenward, _ _ _ [G] war blood.
_ _ _ _ Cry softly, help me to see the morning [C] _ light of one more. _ _
_ I should die [F] before [C] I wake.
_ _ _ [D] I pray my soul.
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_ _ _ _ Can you [G] _ _
_ _ _ hear the heart of a _
_ [G] _ child aching for [C] hope?
_ _ There's something of every _ [D] _
_ _ _ [G] reaching _ _ hand.
With nothing to hold on to but hope for a better [C] day. _ _
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_ Cry softly, help me to feel the [C] love again in my own land.
_ But if I'm no road to go away from, _ _ _ _ give me [G] another.
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_ [Bm] _ [C] _ _ _ [E] Oh, _
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[C] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
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_ _ _ can you _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ hear the voice of the children? _ _ _ _ _
Softly plea [Em] _ for silence in the [Am] shadow.
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[G] Angry _ guns _ preach a gospel full of hate. _
Blood of [C] innocent _ _ on [G] _
their hands.
[G] _ _ Cry Jesus, _ help me to feel [C] the sun again. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [Em] Darkness clears, I [G]
know [C] your name.
Can _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
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you hear the _ _ _ _ _ voice of the _ _ children? _
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