Some I Wrote

Someday when it's all over and they come to carry me And you're walkin' slow and wearin' black with the rest of the family And the choir stands to sing a song, make sure it's one of mine I have a few more tunes that I wanted to write, but I ran out of time Some I wrote for money, some I wrote for fun Some I wrote and threw away, and never sang to any one One I wrote for mama and a couple still aren't through I've lost track of all the rest, but the most I wrote for you That day when it's all over and you're sittin' all alone They'll call and ask you what you want to have written on my stone Tell 'em when I was born and died, the year and the day And if there's room for something more here's what you can say "Some he wrote for money, some he wrote for fun Some he wrote and threw away, and never sang to any one One he wrote for his mama and never finished two or three He lost track of all the rest, but the most he wrote for me" Yeah, some I wrote for money, some I wrote for fun Some I wrote and threw away, and never sang to any one One I wrote for mama and a couple still aren't through I've lost track of all the rest, but the most I wrote for you Yeah, I've lost track of all the rest, but the most I wrote for you