#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Date: 11/12/96; 10:02:20 PM From: ah827@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Gene L. Graham) Subject: THANK GOD FOR KIDS THANK GOD FOR KIDS Recorded by The Oak Ridge Boys Words and music by Eddy Raven If it [D] weren't for kids have you [G] ever thought [D] There wouldn't be no [A7] Santa Claus Or [G] look what the stork just [A7] brought THANK GOD FOR [D] KIDS ...[A7] And [D] we'd all live in a [G] quiet house With-[D] out Big Bird or [A7] Mickey Mouse And [G] Kool Aid on the couch [A7] THANK GOD FOR [D] KIDS. THANK [G] GOD FOR KIDS, there's [A7] magic for a [D] while A [G] special kind of [A7] sunshine in a [D] smile Do you [G] ever stop to [A7] think or wonder [Bm] why ...[G] The nearest [D] thing to [Em] heaven [Em7] is a [Cmaj7] child...[A7] When you [D] get down on your [G] knees tonight To [D] thank the Lord for His [A7] guiding light And [G] pray they turn out [A7] rignt THANK GOD FOR [D] KIDS. Daddy, how does this thing fly? And a hundred other wheres and whys You really don't know but you try THANK GOD FOR KIDS. When you look down in those trusting eyes That look to you, you realize There's a love that you can't buy THANK GOD FOR KIDS.