Lyrics Children* - Johnny Cash feat. The Carter Family

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...