Poems, Prayers And Promises Lyrics - Denver John

I've been lately thinking about my life's time 

all the things I've done and how it's been, 

and I can't help believin' in my own mind 

I know I'm gonna hate to see it end. 

I've seen a lot of sunshine slept out in the rain 

spent a night or two all on my own 

I've known my lady's pleasures had myself some friends 

spent a time or two in my own home. 

Days they pass so quickly now, the nights are seldom long 

time around me whispers when it's cold. 

The changes somehow frightens me, still I have to smile 

it turns me on to think of growing old. 

It's tho' my life's been good to me there's still so much to do 

so many things my mind has never known 

I'd like to raise a fam'ly I'd like to sail away 

dance across the mountains on the moon. 

Ref.) I have to say it now it's been good life all in all, 

it's really fine to have a chance to hang around. 

and lie there by the fire and watch the evening tire, 

while all my friends and my old lady sit and pass a pipe around 

and talk of poems and prayers and promises 

and things that we believe in, how sweet it is to love someone, 

how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday 

what about tomorrow and what about our dreams 

and all the memories we share