This Is All I Ask

Matt Monro

Compositor: Gordon Jenkins

As I approach the prime of my life
I find I have the time of my life
Learning to enjoy at my leasure
All the simple pleasures
And so I happily concede
This is all I ask
And this is all I need

Beautiful girls, walk a little slower when you walk by me
Lingering sunsets, stay a little longer with the lonely sea
Children everywhere, when you shoot at bad men, shoot at me
Take me to that strange enchanted land
Grownups seldom understand

Wandering rainbows, leave a bit of color for my heart to own
Stars in the sky, make my wish come true
Before the night has flown
And let the music play as long as there's a song to sing
And then I will stay younger than spring