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Let the Children

from The Going Away by Helen Dorothy

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lyrics

Let the Children (Push their Fingers Down into the Dirt)
© Helen Dorothy (2008)

Let the children push their fingers down into the dirt
And put those fingers in their mouths
And wipe them on their shirts
And give those shirts another day in the soil, the sand, the sun
It’s half the water, half the soap,
And it’s twice the children’s fun

What’s with a mission statement on their first day back at school:
“I intend to do my best,
And not grow up a fool”
And why all this homework when they’ve worked the whole day through
There’s such a thing as family life
That a family’s got to do

But what’s the point in family life if the family has no fun
And it’s not safe for the kids to go out
In the soil, the sand, the sun,
And love lost and broken is anchored to the ground
By the child that’s never spoken
So the cycle keeps on going round and round

There’s fast cars on dead-end streets and fast food on TV
So the kids they grow up faster
And fast-track past the ‘young and free’
Teach them to talk to faces and not just to their cells
It’s a face that they will want to see
When things aren’t going well

But what’s the use in family life if the family has no fun
And it’s not safe for the kids to go out
In the soil, the sand, the sun,
And love lost and broken is anchored to the ground
By the child that’s never spoken
So the cycle keeps on going round and round

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from The Going Away, released April 1, 2009
Helen Dorothy - vocals, acoustic guitar
Chris Price - percussion

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Helen Dorothy is “an acoustic folk artist in an honest sense” (NZ Musician, 2009). She writes "beautifully-crafted, intelligent songs rich in memorable imagery" (fRoots Magazine, Jan 2014).

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