i said i sure had a real nice time tonight this was my first new years dance you were beautiful and the band was alright shame about your curfew wouldve liked to had the chance just to kiss you into 1941 then you kissed me whispering as time and i stood stunned dont go dont go dont go i know i know i know you gotta get but dont go just yet you said i sure had a real nice time last night the wedding flowers strewn round the room i knew that marrying you meant america too but uncle sam sure does plan one crummy honeymoon then boom went the bandstand and the warships on the pier as you burrowed in my peacoat and you choked beneath their cheers dont go dont go dont go i know i know i know you gotta get but dont go just yet looking back at fifty years now since that kiss at your door at those giddy newlyweds through the weeping and war at every monumental moment at all the best of my life from your doorstep i had known it you were the rest of my life i sure had a real nice time tonight reliving old new years with you hardly noticed the nurses and these damned machines all these supposed experts dont know you like i do they dont know that young girl stubborn as the statue of a mule they know nothing of my woman in the whirlwind keeping cool we both know whats comings coming honey humor an old fool dont go dont go dont go i know i know i know you gotta get but dont go dont go just yet