Summer All Over

All the children home from school

Mothers feed them till they're full

Then, all day, they run about

Play with friends while the sun is out

6 PM, now on your marks

Hurry back 'fore it gets dark

Oh, the joy they feel inside

Worry-free, they've all the time

Now shelter from the pouring rain

To hope it ends is all in vain

Still all the little children pout

Can't run about, though school is out

But what is home?

Tell me true - is it still mine?

How was I to know?

Help me find my way back in

From the place where I have been

I once called home

I know I've been far away

I needed time, but now I'll stay

Gone a while, my plants have dried

Locked inside, they've gone and died

But in the garden we will find

Apples red, they taste divine

But now the work's done for the day

Shall we go outside and play?