The Old Lovers' Rhyme

Album: Songs From The Deep Field

Lyrics

v1) It’s the fall of the year when the wind in the leaves
Sings a song to all lovers grown old
When finally the green of the summers they’ve seen
Has turned to a season of gold
On the porch swing they sit where they muse, read or knit
Holding hands full of wrinkles and time
She softly starts humming, he joins her rememb’ring
A tune called “The Old Lovers’ Rhyme”



v2) Through the twists of the past still the promises last
Weaving two hearts in one single strand
When all that needs saying’s been said and the truth
Is conveyed with the touch of a hand
Were there arguments? yes, and some moments of stress
Ah, but love led them through to the time
When discordant words fell away in the music
That’s playing when old lovers rhyme 



BRIDGE: There is no love like an old love
There is no time like an old time
There’s nothing to sweeten the evening
Like the music when old lovers rhyme



v3) It’s the fall of the year when the wind in the leaves
Sings a song to all lovers grown old
The stranger befriended, the failures amended
The stories all written and told
The guitar’s put away, still the music will play
‘Round the porch where the hollyhocks climb
Afloat on the air in the quietness there
A tune called the old lovers’ rhyme

Credit

by Jack & Nancy Pearson, 1978 © 2016 Jack Pearson, OtterTunity Inc. - BMI