Come Away Melinda lyrics

Mommy, mommy, come and look See what I have found A little way away from here While digging in the ground Come away Melinda Come in and close the door It's nothing but a picture book They had before the war Mommy, mommy, come and see Oh, mommy come and look There's five or six Melinda girls Inside this picture book Come away Melinda Come in and close the door There were lots of little girls like you Before they had the war Mommy, mommy, come and see Oh, mommy hurry, do There's someone grown up very tall Who doesn't look like you Come away Melinda Come in and close the door Your father was a man like him Before they had the war Mommy, mommy, come and see Such things I've never seen There's happy faces all around And now the ground is green Come away Melinda Come in and close the door That's just the way it used to be Before they had the war