Children & Dogs

In a small house there's an old man 

with his children and dog

His wife wakes him mornings and he drives to his job 

Where he works for an old man

Who has children and a dog 

And who's wife wakes mornings and he drives to his job 

They both go home every evening 

Eat, and put their kids to bed

Until their sons are all grown up

and the grown men grow dead 

And their sons move into houses 

with their children and dogs

And their wives wake them mornings 

and they drive to their jobs

When the sons ask their children at the end of the day 

What did you learn? they'll say, "you find work with high pay"

So you can buy a small house 

for your children and dog 

And have a wife wake you mornings

so you can drive to your job 

And their kids will have kids and those kids will have more 

And they'll all live the same lives as their fathers before 

Some will have bigger houses

and some bigger dogs

and some bigger wives - who wake them for their jobs

You drive to work until you come home for dinner 

and then go to sleep until you wake for your job...