Was That My Life?

Was That My Life

One day, in the not too distant past, I was doing my daily waterfront walk, listening to tunes, when the following country and western song started playing.  I was struck by the words that pretty much echoed where my life was at this advanced age of 82, and where it had been all these years, and as we start this next adventure, I wanted to share the words with you.

 

 

We raised some very talented chiuldren, with our daughter Ana as point, they assembled this montague of pictures taken since our marriage

 

The performer is one of my very favorites as she always chooses great lyrics that tell a wonderful story …. I give you….

 

Jo Dee Messina

 

I don’t want to be the one who’s old before their time,
And lose the wonder that I felt as a child.
I can’t run this race believing I might lose;
There’s still so much to see, and so much left to do.
Yes, I’ll fall before I fly,
But no one can say I never tried.
Oh, we just get one ride around the sun,
In this dream of time.
It goes so fast that one day we look back,
And we ask, was that my life?

I close my eyes and think how lucky I have been,
To hold the ones I love and share my dreams with them.
All those sunny days and all those starry skies
Good morning kisses and sweet good nights.
Oh, I can’t tell them enough,
Just how much that they are loved.

We just get one ride around the sun,
In this dream of time.
It goes so fast that one day we look back,
And we ask, oh, was that my life?
Oh, was that my life rollin’ on by?
Oh, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on by.
Was that my life?
Oh, was that my life?

Songwriters: MARV GREEN, BILL LUTHER

 

 

Jack W Cummings – Far East Sailing 2018