Are All the Children In lyrics

When I'm alone, I often think

Of an old house on the hill

Of a big yard hedged in roses

Where we ran and played at will

And when the night time brought us home

Hushing our merry din

Mother would look around and ask:

"Are all the children in?"

Well, it's been many a year now

And the old house on the hill

No longer has my mother's care

And the yard is still so still

But if I listen, I can hear it all

No matter how long it's been

I seem to hear my mother ask:

"Are all the children in?"

And I wonder, when the curtain falls

On that last earthly day

When we say goodbye to all of this

To our pain and work and play

When we step across the river

Where mother so long has been

Will we hear her ask a final time:

"Are all the children in?" (I come)