HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

The years have all flown by so fast
My, where have they all gone?
It feels like it was just yesterday
I took your hand in mine;
We looked each other in the eye
Said "I do" until our death
And even after these fifty years
You still take away my breath.

Before our children had been born
And while you served Uncle Sam
I longed for you to hold me
But you were away in Vietnam;
What times we had when you returned
Our first son was then conceived
And life began again for us, dear
We trusted, shared and we believed.

Now I look in the mirror every day
And wonder what you still see
A grey haired, wrinkled woman
Is that old lady really me?
But you still make me feel special
When we dance in our bare feet
In the kitchen, in the dark
And then I hear you speak:

"My lady, my lover, my baby
I love you with all of my heart
And though soon I must be leaving
We'll never be too far apart;
Doctors don't know everything
And maybe they are all wrong
So tonight let me hold you, darling
'Cuz tomorrow I may be gone."

Well, the doctors did know everything
For tonight I'm toasting myself
And I sob as I raise my empty glass
To you in a box on the shelf;
"Happy anniversary" to the man
Who always gave me everything
When he chose me for his only wife
And I slipped on his ring.

"Happy Anniversary"........