PARENTS      When I was a little boy   They would say to me   Don't go in the world and play   It's bad company      All they had was child and faith   Let him grow and let him wait   Just to find out what it was to be free      But now I'm over twenty one   Growing up I've had my fun   And I know it's got to be      Baby lying in a womb   Are you free or in a tomb   Let me in,   I feel I want to cry.      Oh the road is long   Oh the road is long   Come on back, back.      Wash your hands and up to bed   Mind your manners   Or you're dead   Mind the cars cos you've got school on Monday      Put my trust in God   Who is he I know not what   Something mummy said one Sunday.      Maybe love is life but life is not   It's something I need plenty of.   Oh! I wish I'd died and never lived a day.      Now there's no one near me now   Tell me what to do and how   Take me back and sing my cares away.      Take me let me sing my cares away   Oh! the road is there   Oh that road is there   Come on back, back.      Oh! I'm empty now   Rainy pain has left me now.   Think of what my people used to say.      Black is black and white is white   Which to choose and which is right   Guide me to a place where I can stay.      Wrap me up and keep me warm   Hide myself far from the storm   Sleep and love will keep my mind at rest.      Only now I realise what my parents had to try.   Love you all and keep you all my life.      Oh that road is there   Oh the road is there   Come on back, back.