“FATHERS, DON’T SHOOT YOUR CHILDREN” © 1988, 2015, 2021 WORDS & MUSIC by Elton Houck (ASCAP)/China Co-op Music Publishing(ASCAP))…reprint from Elton Houck’s book—THE 6TH DAY—Exiled from the garden” © 2015 Elton Houck—Outskirts Press// “FATHERS, DON’T SHOOT YOUR CHILDREN”.......... VERSE 1:….People trying to play God/Deciding who lives or dies/Doesn’t anybody care/Can’t you hear the children’s cries?./………… VERSE 2:….Never thought I’d ever see/So many young children gone/So much pain and tragedy/Where did we go wrong?./……….. CHORUS:…..Fathers, don’t shoot your children/What’s the matter with you/Mothers, don’t throw your babies away/How can we be so cruel?/What kind of world is this?/Whatever happened to a father’s love?/And a Mother’s kiss?/What kind of world is this?/ VERSE 3:…..Have hearts grown so cold/That they don’t know how to love/Don’t they realize that children/Are a gift from above./…… VERSE 4:….Don’t it make you wanna’ cry?/When you hear a child has died/And the ones who should really care/Don’t even shed a tear./….. REPEAT CHORUS:………….. VERSE 5:….How did it get out of hand?/Where did we lose our love?/I just don’t understand/What has happened to this land?./…… VERSE 6:….Where are the joyful faces/Of the children at play?/Why do they have to hide/Just to live for another day?/……. REPEAT CHORUS:…..////\\\\---------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTE===The art work for “FATHERS, DON’T SHOOT YOUR CHILDREN” is entitled DEMONIC DECEIVERS…© 2006 Elton Houck This is from THE RED BOOK..a hard covered spiral bound chapbook of 43 original individual paintings and drawings each measuring 4.5" X 7" on black acid free paper. The works in this chapbook begin in 2002 and continue into 2006.The work includes acrylic paint, pages grounded with white gesso, pages grounded with black gesso, and works using India inks, gel pens, acrylic paint , colored pencils, pastels, Oil stick, and any combination of the mix. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======