Father Mother Wife And Child - The Lilac Time

The sun goes down behind a cloud

The church door now in shade

You crossed yourself and you knelt

Behind me as you prayed

Father mother wife and child

I lived alone in August once

I went down to the sea

I met a girl on holiday

With her family

She said she hated all these things

The way we roll through life

So she joined the circus

And she became my wife

Father mother wife and child

The child is the father of the man

The mother and the wife

The child enjoys the longest days

And the longest life

A mother’s work is never done

Contracted in an hour of fun

When the wife was just a bride

You began to grow inside

Father mother wife and child

You’ll have many roles to play

Some you’ll lose and some will stay

But you can’t escape from those

That you cannot choose

The earth revolves around the sun

Infinity has just begun

And we are bound to wonder why

Like a baby born to cry

Father mother wife and child