Turnaround, turnaround,
Turnaround and you're a young girl going out of the door!

Where are you goin' my little one, little one,
Where are you goin' my baby, my own?
Turnaround and you're two, turnaround and you're four,
Turnaround and you're a young girl going out of the door!

Turnaround, ( turnaround! )
Turnaround and you're a young girl
Going out of the door!

Where are you going my little one, little one,
Little dirndls and petticoats, where have you gone?
Turnaround and you're tiny, turnaround and you're grown,
Turnaround and you're a young wife with babes of your own!

Turnaround, ( turnaround! )
Turnaround and you're a young wife
With babes of your own!

With babes of your own ( turnaround! )

Words and Music by Alan Green, Harry Belafonte
and Malvina Reynolds