Come Away Children

COME away children, frisk along with me, For I’ll be the piper and merry will we be; With laughter and dancing and sports to make us gay, O there’s sunshine and there’s singing--come away, come away!

Come away children, leave the town behind; Follow me to Happy-land and see what we shall find, Where the flowers smile to see you and the birdies trill and play Just because the sun is shining--come away, come away!

Come away children, I’ll pipe an elfin tune And we’ll play that we are fairies dancing in the summer moon; We’ll pretend that we are flowers in the carnival of May If you’ll join the merry crew and come away, come away!