About the Children - Tom Paxton

The conversation pauses, while the waiter pours our tea

This timely interruption is a great relief to me

I wish he’d stay all day, I’d never have to say

About the children

You’re looking really lovely, and the dress is really you

The necklace I remember, but the bracelet must be new

But that’s another day, I clear my throat and say

About the children

Oh, they’ll be away at school, they’ll have the camps to go to

And they’re much too young to know how hard it is to go through

Ah, these were to be the years for us, making love in the afternoon

No worries anymore

About the children.

The conversation’s civilised, we calmly nod our heads

You’re smiling as you always do, but your napkin is in shreds

You’d like to run away, oh, who’d be the first to say

About the children

Oh, they’ll be away at school, they’ll have the camps to go to

And they’re much too young to know how hard it is to go through

Ah, these were to be the years for us, making love in the afternoon

No worries anymore

About the children.

The conversation’s civilised, we calmly nod our heads

You’re smiling as you always do, but your napkin is in shreds

You’d like to run away, oh, who’d be the first to say

About the children

About the children