ONCE UPON A TIME

Before I took up smiling

I hated the moonlight!

Shadows of the night

That poets find beguiling

Seemed flat as the moonlight

With no one to stay up for

I went to sleep at ten

Life was a bitter cup

For the saddest of all men



Once upon a time

My heart was just an organ

My life had no mission

Now that I have you

To be as rich as Morgan

Is my one ambition

Once I awoke at seven

Hating the morning light

Now I awake in Heaven