The Children

[Verse 1]
Have you seen the children, the children, the children?
Have you seen the children as they play at children's games?
They laugh and sing together, together, together
They laugh and sing together yet they be all in chains

[Verse 2]
They do not have their mothers, their mothers, their mothers
They do not have their mothers, just the sisters that they dread
Thе sisters have a secrеt, a secret, a secret
The sisters have a secret, to the devil they are wed

[Verse 3]
The children wash the bedsheets, the bedsheets, the bedsheets
The children wash the bedsheets in the laundry cold and dark
They work and play together, together, together
They work and play together, though life be grim and stark

[Verse 4]
The sisters kill the children, the children, the children
The sisters kill the children in the middle of the night
The children sing together, together, together
The children sing together as they fade away from sight