Children

Children, children, children run and jump and play
 Children you'll be men and women someday
 And then you'll have to leave
 Your world of make believe, now children
 Young, carefree children
 
 Children need someone who understands
 Children need someone to hold their hands
 To cheer them when they're sad
 To spank them when they're bad, now children
 Pretty, dirty children
 Pride goes before destruction
 A haughty spirit goes before a fall
 Don't you know that we're all children
 And it's all for one and one for all?
 Children call each other names
 Children playing the grownup games
 And the thing that's really sad
 Is that we lose the faith we had when we were children
 Loud, proud children
 
 Children who think that they are grown
 Children with children of their own
 From the cradle to the grave
 I wish we could all behave like little children
 God's little children, sweet precious children
 Pretty, dirty children, little, bitty children
 Children, children, children
 How I...