Then Came The Children Lyrics - Jerry Jeff Walker

Come gather around me friends 

I'll tell you about a minstrel band 

Of children in their witches hats 

Painting pictures with pipes of pan 

A young boy and his sister 

Played upon a whistle made of tin 

And led me through the open fields 

[Incomprehensible] 

In my dizzy stupor, I was 

Trying to forfeit all that I'd known 

Listen to that French Horn music 

Swirl it's magic, all it's own 

Out along the highways 

Journeyed far for that mystic smile 

Chasing down identities 

My God, we must have run a million miles 

Still we teach the children nothing 

Nothing but survival in this desert bare 

They can teach us how to laugh 

How to love and tie bright ribbons in our hair 

So play for us, you children 

Ring the bells and rhyme, the purples and blues 

Think of us as fighting fools 

Who somehow stumbled through this life loving you 

Let's sing children, sing 

Rhyme all the purples, greens and blues 

Oh, I'll think back over 

How we weathered through the seasons loving you 

[Incomprehensible] child , got his home 

He's got a home