For Jasmine -

I am watching you

Watching the way you watch people do

The things that they do

As you grow older — learning

Child understanding

About the way that a soul on a soul on a soul can be born

Can be beautiful

Child, understanding

I see the smile that lights your face

When you understand and realise

Oh child, in this world

Strange how we forget the things that made us first smile

Ho hey, never stop learning

Ho hey, never stop wandering

Baby’s growing older

Oh my child never stop learning

And I’m learning too

About the way that people do

The things that they do

Never meaning to hurt anyone

But we all do things we regret

And wish we’d never done

Oh child, and there you are

Wandering through the garden of life

Picking up flowers and eating them

And the world will smile when you smile

And we all have smiles inside of us

Ho hey, never stop learning

Ho hey, never stop wandering

Baby’s growing older

Oh my child never stop learning

Now baby, baby, yeah- don’t you ever stop learning

Baby, baby, yeah — don’t you ever stop learning