No Time At All

When you are as old as I my friend

Very few of us are

You will ruefully wonder why my friend

Memories seem so far

You may squander away or sequester

A drop of a precious year

But when your best days are yester

The rest is twice as dear

What good is a field

On a fine summer night

If you sit all alone with the weeds

Or a succulent pear

That with each bite you take

You spit out a tooth with the seed

Before it's to late

Stop trying to wait for fortune

And fake you're secure of

For there's one thing to be sure of

There ain't nothing to be sure of

Oh! It's time to start living

Time to take a little

From the world we're given

Time to take time

For spring will turn to fall

In just no time at all

So when the drearies do attack

Or a siege of the sads begins

I throw these regal shoulders back

And I lift these double chins

Now here is a secret I never have told

Maybe you'll understand why

I believe if I refuse to grow old

I shall be young till I die

Now I've had my fears

And seventy years

I've had troubles and tears by the score

But the only thing I'd trade them for

Is seventy more

Oh! There's time to keep living

Time to keep on taking

From the world we're given

Time to take time

For spring will turn to fall

In just no time at all