Nemo James

Sing For Your Child

Sing for your child
there may be no tomorrow
stay for a while, there’s always time to show you care
so sing for your child, sing for your child, tonight

a little child with wondrous eyes looks up at her father
daddy won’t you sing to me a while
sing me songs of magic
and strange enchanted forests
and magicians that cast spells with wicked smiles
my child I’d dearly love to, but I just don’t have the time
there’s still so many mountains I must climb

a little child with eyes closed tight
lies there like an angel
watched on by her father’s misty eyes
please let her live the father cries
I can’t exist without her
this is not the time to say goodbye
he feels so helpless, and he her king
but then recalls how she loved to hear him sing

Chorus

for seven days and seven nights
he sits down close beside her
singing songs of magic in her ear
the mountains he once climbed
now seemed so much smaller
as the crisis of her illness drew near
then her eyes slowly open
she’s come through the night
don’t worry daddy I’m going to be alright

Sing for your child
there may be no tomorrow
stay for a while, there’s always time to show you care
so sing for your child, sing for your child, tonight

now every time he says goodbye
a thought goes through his mind
there may be no tomorrow
so today he must be kind

Words and music © Nemo James