Our daddys won the war and came home to our moms

They gave them so much love that all us kids were born

We all grew up on Mickey Mouse and hula-hoops

Then we all bought BMW's and brand new pickup trucks

And we watched John Kennedy die one afternoon

Kids of the baby boom



It was a time of new prosperity in the USA

All the fortunate offsprings never had to pay

We had sympathy for the devil and the Rolling Stones

Then we got a little older, we found Haggard and Jones

A generation screaming for more room

Kids of the baby boom



Kids of the baby boom, we had freedom, we had money

Baby boom, here in the land of milk and honey

Counting our chickens way too soon

Kids of the baby boom



Now we all can run computers and we all can dance

We all have Calvin Klein written on our underpants

And at six-o'clock, like robots, we turn on the news

Watch those third world countries deal out more abuse

Remember the first man on the moon



Kids of the baby boom



Kids of the baby boom, we had freedom, we had money

Baby boom, here in the land of milk and honey

Counting our chickens way too soon

Kids of the baby boom



As our lives become a capsule they send to the stars

And our children look at us like we came from Mars

As the farms disappear and the sky turns black

We're a nation full of takers, never giving back

We never stop to think what we consume

Kids of the baby boom



Kids of the baby boom, we had freedom, we had money

Baby boom, here in the land of milk and honey

Cuonting our chickens way too soon

Kids of the baby boom



Our optimism mingles with the doom

Kids of the baby boom