[ti:Then Came The Children (LP版)] [ar:Paul Siebel] [al:Woodsmoke And Oranges] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Then Came the Children (LP版) - Paul Siebel [00:23.99]Come gather all around me friends [00:27.40]I'll tell to you about the minstrel band [00:33.98]Of children in their witches hats [00:37.64]And painting pictures with the pipes of pan [00:44.09]The young boy and his sister played [00:47.65]Some tunes upon a whistle made of tin [00:54.19]And led me through the flower gardens [00:57.99]Laughing at the postman's stubby chin [01:04.91]In my dizzy stupor I was trying [01:09.23]Hard to forfeit all I'd known [01:14.78]And listen to this music that could [01:18.55]Swirl me in a magic all their own [01:42.85]Somewhere in the distance you and I [01:46.90]Had fought the monster to a draw [01:53.12]In those days of books and wine [01:56.39]With Ferlinghetti grasping for a straw [02:03.68]Out along the highways we had [02:07.06]Journeyed far to find the mystic smile [02:13.78]With chasing down identities my God [02:18.10]We must have run a million miles [02:24.11]Oh we can teach them nothing nothing [02:28.08]But survival in a desert bare [02:34.54]But they can teach us how to love [02:38.16]And live and tie bright ribbons in our hair [03:02.72]Oh sing for us you children tinkle bells [03:07.01]And rhyme the purple green and blue [03:12.90]And think of us as fighting fools [03:16.54]Who wintered through the seasons loving you [03:23.62]Oh we can teach them nothing nothing [03:27.70]But survival in a desert bare [03:33.88]But you can teach us how to love [03:37.62]And live and tie bright ribbons in our hair