This Is All I Ask (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York 1984)

This next song is a, is probably the best sample I can suggest

For you tonight from the pen and brain of the great Gordon Jenkins

When Gordie wrote a song he wrote the words in the music

And the orchestration, and this particular song

Was obviously his shining hour

As I approach the prime of my life

I find I have the time of my life

Learning to enjoy at my leisure

All the simple pleasure

And so I happily concede

This is all that I ask

This is all that I need

Beautiful girls

Walk a little slower when you walk by me

Lingering sunset

Stay a little longer with that lonely sea

Children everywhere

When you shoot at bad men, shoot at me

Take me to your strange enchanted land

Grownups seldom understand

Wandering rainbows

Leave bit of color for my heart to own

Stars in the sky

Make my wish come true before the night

Before it has flown

And let the music play as long

As long as there is a song to sing

Then I will be younger

Than spring

Younger than spring

That a beautiful song?

Gordon Jenkins