Poems, Prayers and Promises Lyrics

I?ve been lately thinking about my life?s time
All the things I?ve done, how it?s been
And I can?t help believing 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
And spent a night or two in my own home

I have to say it now, it?s been a 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 pa*s the pipe around

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 and what about tomorrow?
What about our dreams and all the memories we share?

The days they pa*s so quickly now, nights are seldom long
Time around me whispers when it?s cold
The changes somehow frighten me, still I have to smile
It turns me on to think of growing old

For though my life?s been good to me there?s still so much to do
So many things my mind's never known
I?d like to raise a family, I?d like to sail away
And dance across the mountains on the moon, yes I would

I have to say it now, it?s been a good life, all in all
It?s 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 watch the sun go down

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 and what about tomorrow?
What about our dreams and all the memories we share?

John Denver - The Rocky Mountain Collection

Apr 1996

1. Friends With You
2. Sweet Surrender
3. Windsong
4. Come And Let Me Look In Your Eyes
5. Flying For Me
6. Leaving, On a Jet Plane
7. Rhymes & Reasons
8. Follow Me
9. Aspenglow
10. Sunshine on My Shoulders
11. My Sweet Lady
12. Take Me Home, Country Roads
13. Poems, Prayers and Promises
14. Eagle and the Hawk
15. Starwood in Aspen
16. Goodbye Again
17. Rocky Mountain High
18. I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains)
19. Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)
20. Back Home Again
21. Annie's Song
22. Thank God I'm a Country Boy
23. This Old Guitar
24. Fly Away
25. Looking for Space
26. Calypso
27. I'm Sorry
28. Like a Sad Song
29. How Can I Leave You Again
30. Thirsty Boots
31. It Amazes Me
32. I Want to Live
33. Autograph
34. Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stones)
35. Seasons of the Heart
36. Shanghai Breezes
37. Perhaps Love
38. Wild Montana Skies
39. Love Again