Текст песни: Then Came the Children + перевод

Come gather all around me friends

I’ll tell to you about the minstrel band

Of children in their witches hats

And painting pictures with the pipes of pan

The young boy and his sister played

Some tunes upon a whistle made of tin

And led me through the flower gardens

Laughing at the postman’s stubby chin

In my dizzy stupor I was trying

Hard to forfeit all I’d known

And listen to this music that could

Swirl me in a magic all their own

Somewhere in the distance you and I

Had fought the monster to a draw

In those days of books and wine

With Ferlinghetti grasping for a straw

Out along the highways we had

Journeyed far to find the mystic smile

With chasing down identities, my God

We must have run a million miles

Oh we can teach them nothing, nothing

But survival in a desert bare

But they can teach us how to love

And live and tie bright ribbons in our hair

Oh sing for us you children, tinkle bells

And rhyme the purple green and blue

And think of us as fighting fools

Who wintered through the seasons loving you

Oh we can teach them nothing, nothing

But survival in a desert bare

But they can teach us how to love

And live and tie bright ribbons in our hair

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