Am
I live in a town called Millhaven
                                      Dm
And it's small and it's mean and it's cold

But if you come around just as the sun goes down
                                      Am
You can watch the whole thing turn to gold
G                             G7
It's around about then that I used to go a-roaming


[Hook]
        C           Am
Singing La la la la La la la lie
Dm                      E7        Am
All God's children they all gotta die


[Verse 2]
   Am
My name is Loretta, but I prefer Lottie
                               Dm
I'm closing in on my fifteenth year

If you think you have seen a pair of eyes more green
                                      Am
Then you sure haven't see them around here
G                                 G7
Well my hair is a-yeller' and I'm always a-combing


[Hook]
C           Am
La la la la La la la lie
Dm                            E7         Am
My mama often told me that we all got to die


[Verse 3]
Am
You must have heard about The Curse Of Millhaven
                                        Dm
How last Christmas Bill Blakey's little boy didn't come home

They found him the next week up in One Mile Creek
                                Am
With his head bashed in and his pockets full of stones
      G                    G7
Well, just imagine all the wailing and the moaning


[Hook]
C           Am
La la la la La la la lie
Dm                              E7        Am
Even little Billy Blakey's boy, he had to die


[Verse 4]
        Am
Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High
                                           Dm
Found nailed to his door his prize-winning terrier

The next day the old fool brought little Biko to school
                                     Am
And we all had to watch as he buried her
         G                  G7
Well his eulogy to Biko had all the tears flowing


[Hook]
C           Am
La la la la La la la lie
     Dm                      E7           Am
Even God's little creatures, they have to die


[Verse 5]
    Am
Our little town fell into a state of shock
                                                    Dm
A lot of people were saying things that made little sense

The next thing you know the head of Handyman Joe
                                         Am
Was found in the fountain of the Mayor's residence
     G                          G7
Well foul play can really get a small town going


[Hook]
C           Am
La la la la La la la lie
     Dm              E7           Am
Even God's children, they have to die


[Verse 6]
     Am
In a cruel twist of fate, old Mrs Colgate
                                Dm
Was stabbed but the job was not complete

Well, the last thing she said before the cops pronounced her dead
                                   Am
Was, "My killer is Loretta and she lives across the street!"
    G                            G7
And twenty cops burst through my door without even phoning


[Hook]
C           Am
La la la la La la la lie
    Dm                           E7             Am
The young ones and the old ones, they all gotta die


[Verse 7]
        Am
Yes, it is I, Lottie, The Curse Of Millhaven
                                        Dm
I've struck horror in the heart of this town

Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yeller'
                              Am
It's more like the other way around
        G                        G7
I got a pretty little mouth underneath all the foaming


[Hook]
C           Am
La la la la La la la lie
Dm                  E7        Am
Sooner or later, we all gotta die


[Verse 8]
      Am
Since I was no bigger than a weevil they've been saying I was evil
                                  Dm
That if "bad" was a boot that I'd fit it

That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been trying hard lately
                                    Am
Aw, fuck it, I'm a monster, I admit it!
        G                        G7
Well it makes me so mad that my blood starts a-going


[Hook]
C           Am
La la la la La la la lie
Dm                          E7        Am
Mama always told me that we all gotta die


[Verse 9]
             Am
Well yeah, I drowned the Blakey kid, stabbed Mrs. Colgate, I admit
                                       Dm
Did the handyman with his circular saw in his garden shed

But I never crucified little Biko, that was two junior high school psychos
                                      Am
Stinky Bohoon and his friend with the pumpkin-sized head
     G                             G7
I'll sing to the lot, now that you got me going


[Hook]
C           Am
La la la la La la la lie
Dm                      E7        Am
All God's children have all gotta die


[Verse 10]
            Am
Then there' all the others, all our sisters and brothers
                                    Dm
You assumed were accidents, best forgotten

Recall the children who broke through the ice on Lake Tahoo?
                                                              Am
Everyone assumed the "Warning" signs had followed them to the bottom
              G                               G7
Well, they're underneath the house where I do quite a bit of stowing


[Hook]
C           Am
La la la la La la la lie
     Dm                          E7          Am
Even twenty little children, now they had to die


[Verse 11]
        Am
And the fire of '91 that razed the Bella Vista slum
                                                    Dm
That was the biggest shit-fight this country's ever seen

Insurance companies ruined, land lords getting sued
                                      Am
All cause of a wee little girl with a can of gasoline
      G                             G7
Those flames really roared when the wind started blowing


[Hook]
C           Am
La la la la La la la lie
       Dm                            E7        Am
Well a rich man and a poor man, they all gotta die


[Verse 12]
          Am
Well I confessed to all these crimes and they put me on trial
                                  Dm
I was laughing when they took me away

Off to the asylum in an old black Mariah
                                                   Am
Well it ain't home, but you know, it's better than jail
   G                    G7
It ain't such a bad old place to have a home in


[Hook]
C           Am
La la la la La la la lie
Dm                      E7        Am
All God's children they all gotta die


[Verse 13]
          Am
Now I got shrinks that will not rest with their endless Rorschach tests
                                                Dm
I keep telling them that I think they're out to get me

They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer, "Why of course!
                                                 Am
There's so much more I could have done if they'd let me!"
        G                         G7
So it's Rorschach and Prozac, and everything is groovy


[Hook]
        C           Am
Singing La la la la La la la lie
      Dm                      E7          Am
Well, all God's children they all have to die
C           Am
La la la la La la la lie
    Dm                       E7            Am
I'm happy as a lark now, and everything is fine
        C           Am
Singing La la la la La la la lie
Dm                       E7            Am
Everything is groovy and everything is fine
        C           Am
Singing La la la la La la la lie
      Dm                 E7         Am
Well, all God's children they gotta die