The child is smiling, sunshine surrounds her Let sorrow never touch her, she has to go afar The child is innocent, simple is her life She will be a woman, someday someone's wife. The child is smiling, her face a beaming moon It doesn't stop here, a woman she'll be soon Now she doesn't care, she is free and wild But she has to grow up, can't remain a child. The child is running, in gay abandon Let it be like this, let her be on her own It's in her nature, to become a woman To make the world beautiful, in a way only she can.