My children were drawing some pictures
And each had a pencil in hand
And I could hear Christy
Tell Jimmy
In words
That he'd understand

Now, this is our house
See the windows
Now, you draw the sun in the sky
But, when they drew mommy
And daddy
Little Christy started to cry

She said, turn the pencil over
Erase the sun from the sky
Now, this here's a cloud
See, it's raining
These are tears in mommy's eyes

So, turn the pencil over
I guess it's time to begin
To erase him out of the picture
Daddy's gone again

I picked up
Both of my babies
And I got them ready
For bed
Then I picked up
Those pencils and papers
And remembered
What Christy had said

She said, turn the pencil over
Erase the sun from the sky
Now, this here's a cloud
See, it's raining
These are tears in mommy's eyes

So turn the pencil over
I guess it's time to begin
To erase him out of the picture
Daddy's gone again

So, erase him out of the picture
Daddy's gone
Again