He had strange friends and he wore strange clothes and he listened to strange music. And while she rocked him, she sang: I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living my baby you'll be. If he was really asleep, she picked up that nine-year-old boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Sometimes his mother wanted to sell him to the zoo!Īsleep, the mother quietly opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor and looked up over the side of the bed. And he never wanted to come in for dinner, he never wanted to take a bath, and when grandma visited he always said bad words. While she rocked him she sang: I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living my baby you'll be.Ħ The little boy grew. Old was quiet, she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of his bed, and if he was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Sometimes his mother would say, 〝This kid is driving me CRAZY! 〞 He pulled all the food out of the refrigerator and he took his mother's watch and flushed it down the toilet. He grew until he was two years old, and he ran all around the house.

And while she held him, she sang: I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living my baby you'll be.Īnd he grew.

Very slowly rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be…. MunschĢ TO SAM AND GILLY Love You Forever started as a song.

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