The Kids

They're taking her children away

Because they said she was not a good mother

They're taking her children away

Because she was making it with sisters and brothers

And everyone else, all of the others

Like cheap officers who would

Stand there and flirt in front of me

They're taking her children away

Because they said she was not a good mother

They're taking her children away

Because of the things that they heard she had done

The black Air Force sergeant was not the first one

And all of the drugs she took

Every one, every one

And I am the water boy

The real game's not over here

But my heart is overflowin' anyway

I'm just a tired man

No words to say

But since she lost her daughter

It's her eyes that fill with water

And I am much happier this way

They're taking her children away

Because they said she was not a good mother

They're taking her children away

Because number one was the girlfriend from Paris

The things that they did, ah, they didn't have to ask us

And then the Welshman from India

Who came here to stay

They're taking her children away

Because they said she was not a good mother

They're taking her children away

Because of the things she did in the streets

In the alleys and bars, no, she couldn't be beat

That miserable rotten slut couldn't turn

Anyone away

I am the water boy

The real game's not over here

But my heart is overflowin' anyway

I'm just a tired man

No words to say

But since she lost her daughters

It's her eyes that fill with water

And I am much happier this way