MY WAY......

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MY WAY

AND NOW THE END IS NEAR; AND SO I FACE THE FINAL CURTAIN.

MY FRIEND, I"LL SAY IT CLEAR, I'LL STATE MY CASE, OF WHICH I'M CERTAIN.

I HAVE LIVED A LIFE THAT'S FULL, I'VE TRAVELED EACH AND EVERY HIGHWAY,

(Yes, 120 countries, 6 of the 7 continents and all 50 states....around the world....MY WAY).

BUT MORE, MUCH MORE THAN THIS...I DID IT MY WAY.

REGRETS, I'VE HAD A FEW;  BUT THEN AGAIN, TOO FEW TO MENTION....

I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO AND SAW IT THROUGH WITHOUT EXEMPTION....

I PLANNED EACH CHARTER COURSE; EACH CAREFUL STEP ALONG THE BYWAY,

(Yes, I graduated from High School, on to College, a stewardess, marriage, a mom and Grammie and did all this MY WAY)

BUT MORE, MUCH MORE THAN THIS, I DID IT MY WAY.

YES, THERE WERE TIMES, I'M SURE YOU KNEW.....WHEN I BIT OFF MORE THAN I COULD CHEW.....BUT THROUGH IT ALL, WHEN THERE WAS DOUBT....I ATE IT UP AND SPIT IT OUT.....

(A cheating husband.....three little girls...i hung on till the last were 18 and he walked out....a divorce after 30 years.....but no booze or drugs...just tears and prayers...I stood tall and did it MY WAY)

I FACED IT ALL AND I STOOD TALL; AND DID IT MY WAY.

I'VE LOVED, I'VE LAUGHED AND CRIED, I'VE HAD MY FILL; MY SHARE OF LOSING.

(The hardest thing you will ever have to do.....is grieve for someone who is still alive).

AND NOW, AS TEARS SUBSIDE, I FIND IT ALL SO AMUSING....

TO THINK I DID ALL THAT; AND MAY I SAY - NOT IN A SHY WAY,

NO, OH NO NOT ME......I DID IT MY WAY.

FOR WHAT IS MAN, WHAT HAS HE GOT? IF NOT HIMSELF, THEN HE HAS NAUGHT.

TO SAY THE THINGS HE TRULY FEELS; AND NOT THE WORDS OF ONE WHO KNEELS.

THE RECORD SHOWS I TOOK THE BLOWS......AND DID IT MY WAY!

I WANT MY NEPHEW MIKE TO SING THIS AT MY GRAVE SIDE.....AND" SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW."

I LOVE MY LIFE AT 86.....AND I AM.....I AM LIVING IT ...."MY WAY."