We'll Take Care of You All



[Verse]
 * There's a land far away,
 * That's the world's protegè, [sic]
 * And it calls to us way over there,


 * And who ever is wrong,
 * or who ever is right,
 * We all pity it's [sic] grief and despair,


 * There the poor wander on
 * from the homes that are gone,
 * There are children whose fate we deplore.


 * Their pale faces haunt us,
 * they need us; they want us,
 * Those sad little waifs of the war.

[Refrain]
 * Boys and girls,
 * girls and boys,
 * Our hearts go out to you,


 * Let us be your mothers,
 * and your sisters and your brothers
 * till your skies again are blue,


 * Let us dry your tears
 * and let us sooth your fears!
 * with heart and voice we call,


 * "Come little children,
 * come over the sea,
 * and we'll take care of you all."

[Verse]
 * In this struggle of kings,
 * Where the black Eagle's wings,
 * Have obscured the fair light of the sun,


 * There the eyes of a child,
 * And the voice of a child,
 * With all smiles and laughter are done,


 * For no fault of their own
 * it is they who atone;
 * They are homeless and starving today.


 * To our arms we'll take them
 * and happy we'll make them;
 * The world's little playmates are they.

[Refrain]
 * Boys and girls,
 * girls and boys,
 * Our hearts go out to you,


 * Let us be your mothers,
 * and your sisters and your brothers
 * till your skies again are blue,


 * Let us dry your tears
 * and let us sooth your fears!
 * with heart and voice we call,


 * "Come little children,
 * come over the sea,
 * and we'll take care of you all."