Goldsboro Bobby - Autumn Of My Life lyrics

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(peak Billboard position # 19 in 1968)<br />

Words and Music by Bobby Goldsboro<br />

In the spring of my life she came to me<br />

She brought sunshine where winter winds had blown<br />

Then I took her for my wife in the spring of my life<br />

And she brought me a joy I'd never known<br />

And the years they went by in the spring of my life<br />

And in summer she blessed me with a child<br />

Love continued to grow in the summer of my life<br />

And in every morning sun I saw her smile<br />

But in the autumn of my years I noticed the tears<br />

And I knew that our life was in the past<br />

Though I tried to pretend, I knew it was the end<br />

For the autumn of my life had come at last<br />

Now what, what do you say to a child of ten?<br />

How do you tell him his daddy's goin' away?<br />

Do I tell him that I reached the autumn of my life<br />

And that he'll understand some winter's day?<br />

Now a rose can't be found on a snow-covered ground<br />

And the sun cannot shine through cloudy skies<br />

But I'm richer, you see, for the years she gave to me<br />

And I'm content in the autumn of my life