“I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living,
my baby you'll be.”
“A mother held her new baby and very slowly rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.”
“The baby grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was two years old, and he ran all around the house. He pulled all the books off the shelves.”
“That teenager grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a grown-up man.”
“But at night time, when that teenager was asleep, the mother opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor and looked up over the side of the bed.”
“When the son came home that night, he stood for a long time at the top of the stairs.”
“He grew until he was two years old, and he ran all around the house.”
“Sometimes his mother wanted to sell him to the zoo!”
“He grew until he was a teenager. He had strange friends and he wore strange clothes and he listened to strange music.”
“Well, that mother, she got older. She got older and older and older.”
And he never wanted to come in for dinner, he never wanted to take a bath and when grandma visited he always said bad words.
He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a grown-up man. He left home and got a house across town
If that great big man was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
You’d better come see me because I’m very old and sick
She sang:
I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always…
But she couldn’t finish because she was too old and sick
When the son came home that night, he stood for a long time at the top of the stairs
He picked her up and rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth
And he sang this song:
I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always,
As long as I’m living
my Mommy you’ll be.