Little Tom Chords

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[Intro 1]
[G][D]

[Verse 1]
Little [D]Tom,
[A]what will be your [D]fate?
Little
[A]Tom, will you be someone [D]great?
Do you know [A]right from [D]wrong
Are [G]they teachin' you at home
Or are [D]you left to [A]roam
Little [D]town
I went into a cafe and ordered
[A]myself something to eat
When a [D]little boy walked in
with shoes half off his feet
He [A]said, my paper mister? I said,
how old are you [D]son?
Seven sir, and when my papers are sold
I'll be on my way home.
What's [A]your name?
[D]Thomas sir, but everybody calls me little
[G]Tom.
They named me after my daddy,
but this hair looks like my [D]mom.
Why it's almost midnight,
[A]and you should be home asleep.
[D]I know it, but I wanted to get me a bicycle,
and I gotta help mommy buy something to eat.
My daddy's pretty [A]mean to us,
and he spends most of [D]his money for wine
And he don't hold a job like other men,
cause, [A]well, he gets fired all the time
I said, have something [D]to eat,
son, aren't you hungry?
I guess a little bit,
I believe I'll have a hamburger and a glass of milk to go with it
I said, is [G]that enough?
Make it two, ain't eaten since lunch
Where [A]do you live, [D]son?
On
Main
Street, [A]sir, there's six of
us lives in one room.
[D]That's me and my three brothers
and my mommy and my dad.
But I'm gonna buy mommy a big house someday,
[A]if I have to turn out [D]bad.
My appetite left me as I
sat there watching him,
an[A]d I thought, he's just one of thousands
that's brought up in a home of [D]sin,
where the parents declare their children
and forget the maker of all mankind,
and then wonder why there's juvenile delinquency
when they're at fault most [G]of the time.
I bit my lip and fought back tears as I
[D]watched the [Bm]little guy leave [D]the cafe,
[A]and I wondered how many more chil
[Bm]dren would be brought up [Gm]that way.
Little
[D]Tom,
[A]what will be your fate?
[D]Thank you for watching.