IT WAS MANY, MANY YEARS AGO,
WAS THERE I SAW YOU ALL AGLOW.
THIRTEENTH AND FILBERT WAS THE STREET,
IN PHILADELPHIA, WHERE WE DID MEET.


THAT WAS JANUARY, NINETEEN-FIFTY-NINE,
AND I KNEW AT ONCE, THAT YOU'D BE MINE.
THREE MONTHS LATER, I ASKED YOUR HAND.
YOU'D ALREADY GIVEN ME, A FRIENDSHIP BAND.


AND TO MY PARENTS, I PROUDLY TOOK.
YOU THERE FOR THEM TO TAKE A LOOK.
AT THE WOMAN I PLANNED TO SPEND.
MY WHOLE LIFE, UNTIL THE END.


THE TRIP TURNED OUT NOT TO BE.
QUITE HOW I'D HOPED IT WOULD BE.
ONE OPENED YOU, WITH OPEN ARMS.
OVERCOME WITH YOUR GIRLISH CHARMS


.THE OTHER WOULD NOT BEND OR SWAY,
FOR SHE COULD NOT HAVE HER WAY.
BUT THAT DID NOT DETER OUR LOVE.
A LOVE FORGED IN HEAVEN ABOVE.


SIX MONTHS THEY SAID WAS ALL WE'D LAST.
OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY IS LONG, LONG PAST.
A SHOT-GUN WEDDING, IT HAD TO BE.
FOR ONLY FIVE MONTHS HAD PAST, YOU SEE.


WHEN WE TOOK OUR WEDDING VOWS.
AND FROM MY FAMILY, THERE WERE NO WOWS.
AND TWO YEARS AFTER WE BECAME ONE.
YOU BORE OUR FIRST SON.


WE BEAT THEM ALL, WE PASSED THE TEST.
AND FOR ALL THE YEARS, WE LIVED OUR BEST.
OUR LOVE LASTED, WHEN THEY SAID IT SHOULDN'T.
BUT WE DIDN'T BELIEVE THEM AND WE WOULDN'T.


AND SO MY LOVE, I CLOSE THIS RHYME.
AND I WILL WRITE ANOTHER TIME.
TO THE SWEETEST GIRL I KNOW.
I SAY. "I LOVE YOU", TO BED I GO.


Written By Bud

Submitted and used with Bud's permission - thank you 

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