Beside A Babbling Brook

Verse 1.

When I was younger, I used to hunger

To climb up the ladder of life

Now that I’ve grown up, I might as well own up

It’s not worth of worry and strife

Things that I wanted were paid

For blessings I can not recall

And all that I have I would trade

For the things I considered so small

Refrain:

I’d be more than satisfied

If I could hide away

Beside a babbling brook

Rippling waters call me far away

To quiet shady nook

Thru the woods I long to hike

To linger where the world is like a story book

Like a lazy daisy gazin’ at the sky

Let me live and love

And lеt the world go by

I’d be more than satisfied

If I could hide away

Beside a babbling brook

Verse 2

I see a pond of lilies I’m fond of

And I see a rickety boat

Seemed for a minute that I was back in it

Forgetting and letting her float

While I was lazily dozing

Just dreaming and drifting along

I heard at the summer day’s closing

A whippoorwill singing my song