• Song:

    Heaven Help Us All

  • Artist:

    Stevie Wonder

  • Album:

    Best Of/20th Century

...HEAVEN HELP US ALL... by Stevie Wonder
------------------------.................

*from 'Signed, Sealed and Delivered' (1970)*

(Written by Ronald Miller)


*CAPO 4th FRET*

(Original Key: Ab)


Intro:

E  A/E, E  A/E

Verse 1:

E                E7/Ab     A
 Heaven help the child who never had a home.
E                E7/Ab     A
 Heaven help the girl, who walks the street alone.
E                E7/Ab         A
 Heaven help the roses, if the bombs begin to fall;
B7      A       E
 Heaven help us all.

Verse 2:

E                E7/Ab           A
 Heaven help the black man if he struggles one more day.
E                E7/Ab           A
 Heaven help the white man if he turns his back away.
E                E7/Ab             A
 Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl;
B7      A       E
 Heaven help us all.

Chorus 1:

E       F#m7 E7/Ab A    B7
 Heaven help us    all,
E       F#m7 E7/Ab A    B7      E
 Heaven help us    all, help us all.

       F#m7 D
Heaven help us;
F#m    Ab7      C#m   C#m7         F#7
 Lord, hear our call, when we call.
B7  C7    Bb7
    Oh....... yeah!

*KEY CHANGE*
------------

Verse 3:

F                F7/A           Bb
 Heaven help the boy, who won't reach twenty-one.
F                F7/A    Bb
 Heaven help the man who gave that boy a gun.
F                F7/A              Bb
 Heaven help the people with their back's against the wall;
C7            Bb      F
 Lord, heaven help us all.

Chorus 2:

F       Gm7  F7/A Bb  C7
 Heaven help us   all,
F      Gm7   F7/A Bb
 Heaven help us   all.
C7
 Heaven help us;
Gm     A7       Dm    Dm7     G7    C7
 Lord, hear our call, when we call.
Gm       F
 Help us all.

Interlude:

F  Bb/F, F  Bb/F

Break:

(Spoken):

F             Bb/F
 Now I lay me down, before I go to sleep.
F                       Bb/F
 In a troubled world, I pray the Lord to keep.
F                            Bb/F
 Keep hatred from the mighty and the mighty from the small...

Coda:

(Slower Tempo):

C7      Bb
 Heaven help us...

(Original Tempo):

F
 All.
                         Gm7  F7 Bb
Oh, oh, oh, yeah! Heaven help us all.

(Repeat to Fade)


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------

   E       A/E    E7/Ab    A       B7     F#m7     D

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 022100  002220  402400  x02220  021200  242222  xx0232

   F#m     Ab7     C#m    C#m7     F#7     C7      Bb7

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 244222  464544  x46654  x46454  242322  x32310  x13131

   F      F7/A     Bb      Gm7     A7      Dm      Dm7

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 133211  x01211  x13331  353333  x02223  xx0231  xx0211

   G7      Gm      F      Bb/F     F7

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 323000  3x0330  133211  113331  131211


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)
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