Poems, Prayers And Promises Lyrics

Poems, Prayers And Promises

This song appears on twelve albums, and was first released on the Poems, Prayers
& Promises Album, then The Very Best of John Denver (Double CD), This Is John
Denver, The Country Roads Collection and The Rocky Mountain Collection Albums,
and has also been recorded on the Greatest Hits Vol 1, John Denver (Italian)
and Rocky Mountain Holiday Albums. Live versions also appear on the An Evening
With John Denver, Country Classics, The Wildlife Concert and The Very Best of
John Denver Live Albums.

Ive been lately thinking
About my lifes
time
All the things Ive done
And how its been
And I cant help
believing
In my own mind
I know Im gonna hate to see it end

Ive
seen a lot of sunshine
Slept out in the rain
Spent a night or two all on
my own
Ive known my ladys pleasures
Had myself some friends
And spent
a time or two in my own home

And I have to say it now
Its been a good
life all in all
Its 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 the 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 its been since
yesterday
And what about tomorrow
And ehat about our dreams
And all
the memories we share

The days they pass so quickly now
Nights are
seldom long
And time around me whispers when its cold
The changes somehow
frighten me
Still I have to smile
It turns me on to think of growing
old
For though my lifes been good to me
Theres still so much to do
So
many things my mind has never known
Id like to raise a family
Id like to
sail away
And dance across the mountains on the moon

I have to say it
now
Its been a good life all in all
Its really fine
To have the 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 the 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 its been since yesterday
What about tomorrow
What about our
dreams
And all the memories we share

Words and music by John Denver