Lyrics

the little picture

1
There's a little picture, crayon, blue and red,
In a little kitchen, on a big white fridge.
It's a little faded, and a little torn -
But the family sure looks happy now, on that bright blue lawn.

2
There's a mama smiling, there's a little girl,
And she's drawn her daddy, about ten feet tall.
I tell y'a all my problems just fade away -
That little scene she drew, it gets me through, it makes my day.

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And each night I see that little picture,
And I know that things'll work out fine;
And I could not be one dollar richer -
I'll take that little picture every time.
3
Well in the bigger picture, you got your Dow Jones;
You got your market forces, you got your free-trade zones;
But the stuff that matters - the stuff we really rate -
It just might be those little pictures on fridge doors in fifty states.

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And each night I see that little picture,
And it sure does beat the news at nine;
'Cos a life's just made of little pictures,
And I'll take that little picture every time.

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It ain't no big news -
Seems like the world keeps getting bigger.
Bigger debts, bigger guns,
A quicker finger on a quicker trigger.

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But each night I see that little picture,
And I know that things'll work out fine;
And I could not be one dollar richer -
I'll take that little picture every time.

I'll take that picture,
That little picture,
I'll take that little picture every time.

© 2004 Richard A. Lewis (Control) / Peter Kenyon (Control) APRA