Children - Joe South

Children

Go and run and jump and play

You’ll be

Men and women some day

Then you’ll have to leave

Your world of make believe

Now, children

Young (Children)

Carefree (Children)

Children

Children (Children)

Need someone to understand

Children

Need someone to hold their hands

Yeah

To cheer you when you’re sad

To spank you when you’re bad now

Children

Haughty (Children)

Naughty (Children)

Children

Pride goes before destruction

A holy spirit goes before a fall

Don’t you know that we’re all children

And it’s all for one and one for all, mm

Children (Children)

Call each other names

Children

Playin' grown-up games

And the thing that’s really sad

We lose the faith we had

When we were children mm-hmm

Loud (Children)

Proud (Children)

Children

Children (Children)

Who think that they are grown

Children

With children of their own

From the cradle to the grave

Why must we all behave like

Children?

(Na-na, na-na, na, na, na-na, na-na, na, na)

Lost (Children)

Lonely (Children)

Children

Lost

Lonely

Children

Young

Carefree

Children

Haughty

Naughty

Children

Lost

Lonely

Children