Toyland Lyrics

Children enjoy your fun and games today

Before time grabs hold and youth fades away

When you've grown up my boys

And are as old as I

You'll often ponder on the years

That roll so swiftly by. (My dears)

That roll so swiftly by

And of the many lands

You will have journeyed through

You'll oft recall the best of all

The land your childhood knew

Your childhood knew

Toyland. Toyland

Little girl and boy land

While you dwell within it

You are ever happy then

Childhood's joy land

Mystic, merry Toyland

Once you pass its borders

You can never return again.

When you've grown up, my girls

There comes a dreary day

When 'mid the locks of black appears

The first pale gleam of gray. (My dears)

The first pale gleam of gray

Then of the past you'll dream

As gray-haired grown-ups do

And seek once more its phantom shore

The land your childhood knew

Your childhood knew

Toyland. Toyland

Little girl and boy land

While you dwell within it

You are ever happy then

Childhood's joy land

Mystic merry Toyland

Once you pass its borders

You can never return again

Oh I have passed its borders

I can never return

(To that land, I can never return)

Again!

(Never return. Never again!)