This Is All I Ask

This Is All I Ask


- Artist: Tony Bennett as sung on "Tony Bennett's Greatest Hits, Vol. III"

Columbia CL 2313

- peak Billboard position # 70 in 1963

also charted in 1963 by Burl Ives at # 63

- Words and Music by Gordon Jenkins



As I approach the prime of my life

I find I have the time of my life

Learning to enjoy at my leisure

All the simple pleasures

And so I happily concede

That this is all I ask

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 grown-ups 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 I will stay younger than Spring



Transcribed by Robin Hood


These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above

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