Wilhelmina

C                   Dm
Willie, what can I say to you
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to hold true in your changing life?
C                   Dm
You've come into a cruel world
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little girls can lose their way in 
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the growing night
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I hope you'll be alright
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C                       Dm
Willie, try to stay a child sometime
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for as long as you feel you can 
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learn
C                   Dm
Babies all turn to people
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and people can really be strange
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they change and, changing, bring 
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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
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as you hope they'll be to you
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be honest
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be true

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

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

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