There is joy in the family on the day a new baby arrives
There are congratulations from relations and husbands and wives
And old grandad and grandma are smiling on their happy day
As they both dream of their childhood those days their whole life turned away
Every day he is growing very soon he's a baby no more
On his first day of school mommy smiles as he walks out the door
With a tear in her eye she remembers her own first school day
Oh but now where are those days it's amazing how time slips away
Many years past he's grown up with a wife and a child of his own
And they all live together so happy in their home sweet home
There are times when he's holding his baby his own pride and joy
That his thoughts go a wandering back to when he was a boy
Now the years they have flown he's an old man all wrinkled and grey
He's grandaddy now and his grandchildren come round to play
They are good little children they love him they have so much fun
While grandad sits in his chair and remembers when he too was young
We're spinning around
We're up and we're down
We're taking a ride on the merry-go-round
We're ringing the bell of life's carousel
And when you'll get off it nobody can tell
We don't have a care
When we've got the fair
But sometimes we don't and we're left standing there
But soon it's OK and we're up off the ground
And we're riding again on the merry-go-round
