[Prelude]
Did you ever think that your mother used to be a little girl?
And your dad used to be a little boy?
That's right, they were children one time too
They weren't great, big, and strong then
No, they were little. And they had parents who wanted to help them to grow too
It's good to remember that mothers and dads were little once too

It's great for me to remember
As I put away my toys
That mothеrs were all little girls onе time
And fathers were all little boys

My daddy seems so big right now
He must have grown a lot
Imagine how he felt one day
When he was just a tot

My mother's not so big as Dad
But bigger than my sister
I wonder if she ever had
A little fever blister

Daddy didn't even have
A real electric fan
He had to wait a long time, too
'Til he became a man
My mother used an ironing board
And play irons that were colder
She often wished for big folks' things
But she waited and got older

So knives and plugs and hot things are
OK for Mom and Dad
'Cause when they were a girl and boy
They played with what they had

It's great for me to remember
As I put away my toys
That mothers were all little girls one time
And fathers were all little boys