The Good Things In Life 1971

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 3 May 2013
2013

I have lived,
I have loved,
I have laughed,
I have cried,
I have tried to give
my life some meaning,
I have tried
to make it all make sense.
I have made the journey
up the mountain
and the descents.

I have known
the bitter taste of sadness
I have fought
some pretty hopeless fights.
I have lived
the loveliest of days
and loneliest of nights.

I have won,
I have lost,
I have learned
to my cost
that I've crossed
and burned too many bridges.
If I could go back
perhaps I would,
then again,
I don't take good advice
when maybe I should.

But I raise my glass
to the good things in life,
to a place in the sun
where our children can run,
to the green of the grass
and the love of a wife.

I've been right,
I've been wrong,
I've been weak
I've been strong.
And I long
to live in someone's mem'ry,
and I long to live upon a hill.
And it doesn't matter
that I know that I never will.
But I raise my glass
to the good things in life.
I am not here for long,
but there's time for a song
and some wine.

And when time
runs away
I will look back and say
that the good things in life
were all mine!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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The Good Things In Life 1971
from the musical "The Good Old Bad Old Days"
by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley
© 1971 & 1972 by Taradam Music Inc.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 3 May 2013 at 16.42
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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