I've got some pictures of us, we're all at the shore I must've been four then I couldn't have been more My father was holding me up just for show My mother was posing like Marilyn Monroe They taught me a song that I never forgot It went, little things mean a lot. Play me one of the songs And you take me over the fields and farms When I was a boy and life was a joy I never got over. Sing me one of the songs And you've got me, rock me to sleep in your arms The way that you did when I was a kid In the summers of clover. Here is another I never did like When I ran away on that old broken down bike A new baby brother came home that same day I guess I just figured I'd be in the way You bribed me with marbles and chocolate ice cream And all I have to do is dream. Play me one of the songs And you take me over the fields and farms When I was a boy and life was a joy I never got over. Sing me one of the songs And you've got me, rock me to sleep in your arms The way that you did when I was a kid In the summers of clover. (Take me away, take me away ...)