heaven help the child who never had a home heaven help the girl who walks the streets alone heaven help the roses when the bombs begin to fall heaven help us all heaven help the black man if he struggles one more day heaven help the white man if he turns his back away heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl heaven help us all heaven help us heaven help the boy who won t reach twenty one and heaven help the man who gave that boy a gun heaven help the people with their backs against the wall heaven help us all heaven help us now i lay me down before i go to sleep in a troubled world i pray the lord to keep keep the hatred from the mighty and the mighty from the small heaven help us all  heaven help us all heaven help us all 