C                   Dm
Willie, what can I say to you
        G                       F
to hold true in your changing life?
C                   Dm
You've come into a cruel world
        G                                       F
little girls can lose their way in the growing night
                    C       F   C       F
I hope you'll be alright

C                       Dm
Willie, try to stay a child sometime
        G                         F
for as long as you feel you can learn
C                   Dm
Babies all turn to people
    Gm                    F     Am  Cm7 D
and people can really be strange
     G            Gmaj7           E     F
they change and, changing, bring pain

Bm
Try to treat your parents well because they care
                        Em
and what more can you do?
C#m
When you find your lovers, be good to them
                            C
as you hope they'll be to you 
    G       Am  Am7
be honest
    F       Dm
be true

C                   Dm
Willie, you are the future
        G                               F
all our lives, in the end are in your hands
C                                   Dm
Life's hard now; you know it gets harder
    G                       F
and hope is but a single strand
                                        C
we pass it on and hope you'll understand

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C   F   Dm  G
Em  C   Fsus2   Csus2
C   F   C   F

Bm
We know that we do it wrong
                                        Em
we're not so strong and not so sure at all
C#m
groping in our blindness
C#m
we may seem big now but, really, we're so
C           G           Am          G
small and alone and searching for a home
        F       Dm
in the night

C                           Dm
Meanwhile you're still a baby
            G
you'll be a lady soon enough
                            F
and then you will feel the burn
                    C                   Dm
So hold my words: people all turn to children
            Gm                              F   Am     Cm7  D
spiteful children, and they're really so cruel
        G
cruel fools!
     Gmaj7        E   F
Just follow your own rules
C                     C
don't think that I'm silly, Willie
C           C                 C
if I say I hope that there is hope for you