The Party

As we were dressing to go out
Our little girl and boy
Came in and asked if they could go this time
We told them little girls and
Boys don't belong at parties
And that they should be in bed asleep by nine
The babysitter came in then and
We kissed the kids goodbye
And told them that we'd be home soon
And told them not to cry

Then we left for the party
Like we'd so often done
Thinkin' only of ourselves and
Not our little ones
The party started out wild and it grew
Wilder as the night wore on
With drinking laughing teling dirty jokes
Nobody thinkin' of home
Then the stranger feeling came over me and
It chilled me to the bones
And I told my wife that
We'd better leave the party
'Cause I felt that we were needed at home
As we rode along, i got to thinking of how
The kids that mornin'
Had asked if we would take them
To church the next day
And how I'd put 'em off
Like I'd so often done
By sayin' we'd probably get home too late
Then my thoughts were interrupted by
The sound of sirens
As they cut through the still night air
Then we turned down our street
That's when we saw the fire
The rest was like a nightmare
We took their little bodies to
Church the next day
Though we'd left the party early we
Still got home too late