This Is All I Ask Lyrics

This Is All I Ask lyrics

This Is All I Ask 

  

 - Artist: Tony Bennett as sung on "Tony Bennett's Greatest Hits, Vol. III" 

 Columbia CL 2313 

 - peak Billboard position # 70 in 1963 

 also charted in 1963 by Burl Ives at # 63 

 - Words and Music by Gordon Jenkins 

  

  

 As I approach the prime of my life 

 I find I have the time of my life 

 Learning to enjoy at my leisure 

 All the simple pleasures 

 And so I happily concede 

 That this is all I ask 

 This is all I need 

  

 Beautiful girls, walk a little slower when you walk by me 

 Lingering sunsets, stay a little longer with the lonely sea 

 Children everywhere, when you shoot at bad men, shoot at me 

 Take me to that strange, enchanted land grown-ups seldom understand 

  

 Wandering rainbows, leave a bit of color for my heart to own 

 Stars in the sky, make my wish come true before the night has flown 

 And let the music play as long as there's a song to sing 

 And I will stay younger than Spring 

  

  

 Transcribed by Robin Hood 

  

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