Mom can I have chocolate milk this morning?

No! Sweet Sue you’re putting on weight

And did you brush your teeth yet, dear Johnnie?

Come on kids, school’s starting at eight.

And the flags fly half-staff.

Can we have breakfast at Starbucks today?

Please, please, Dad, that would be so great.

I’d love a chunk of their lemon pound cake,

No, no son, my car-pool won’t wait.

And the flags fly half-staff.

For Christmas I’d like that video game

They demoed on TV last night.

No Jim! That’s not at all good for your age

It would make your mother go white.

And the flags fly half-staff.

Mommy, I can’t go to my school right now

My tummy is giving me pain

Oh, come on, my lad, you’ll get over it

I hate when I hear you complain!

And the flags fly at half-staff.