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Lit tle child,
dry your cry (Bm)show in’ eyes.
How can I ex plain
the (Em)fear you feel the in side?
(D)young.
’Cause you were born
in for to the this (Bm)world e vil to world see
where man that is we kill (G)all ing can man with and (Em)love no one knows and just (D)peace.
why.
What have (Bm)we be gun?
Just look what (Bm)we have done.
All that we de stroyed
(Em)you must build a (D)gain.
When the (Em)chil
dren
(Bm)cry,
let them (C)know
we
(G)tried.
’Cause when the (Em)chil
dren
(Bm)sing,
then the (C)new
world be (D)gins.
Lit tle child,
you must cry (Bm)show the way
to a bet ter day for (Em)all you feel the in side?
(D)young.
’Cause you were born
in for to the this (Bm)world e vil to world see
where man that is we kill (G)all ing can live with and (Em)love no one knows and just (D)peace.
why.
No more (Bm)pres i dents,
and all the (Bm)wars will end;
one u nit ed world
(Em)you must un der (D)God.
When the (Em)chil dren
(Bm)cry,
let them (C)know we
(G)tried.
’Cause when the (Em)chil dren
(Bm)sing,
then the (C)new world be (D)gins.
(D)gins.
What have (Bm)we be gun?
Just look what (Bm)we have done.
All that we de stroyed,
(Em)you must build a (D)gain.
No more (Bm)pres i dents,
and all the (Bm)wars will end;
one u nit ed world
(Em)you must un der (D)gain.
(D)God.
When the (Em)chil dren (Bm)cry,
let them (C)know we (G)tried.
’Cause when the (Em)chil dren (Bm)fight,
let them (C)know it ain’t right.
When the (Em)chil dren (Bm)pray,
let them (C)know the (G)way.
’Cause when the (Em)chil dren (Bm)sing,
then the (C)new world be gins.
This page shows “When The Children Cry” by White Lion in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of E at 100 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.