The Final...
And when the end is near,
And so we face the final curtain,
My friends I'll say it clear,
We'll state our case, of which I'm certain,
We wrote and quarelled, almost every day,
And more, much more than this,
We did it our way.
Yes there were times, I'm sure you know,
When we bit off more, than we could chew,
But through it all, when there were doubts,
We ate it up and spit it out,
We faced it all and stood tall,
And did it our way.
Regrets we have a few,
But then again, too few to mention,
We did what we had to do and saw it through,
Without exemption,
We planned and charted course,
A careful step along our byway,
And more, much more than this,
We did it our way.
We've loved, we've laughed and cried,
We've had our fill, our share of losing,
And now as tears subside we find,
It all so amusing,
To think we did all that,
And may we say, not in a shy way,
Oh no, oh no, not we, we did it our way.
To say the things we truly feel,
And not the words of those who kneel,
The record shows, we took the blows,
And did it our way.
With thanks to Frankie-boy...