walk into the bar and shake off my coat pull up a chair and light up a smoke where did all those summers go guess i ll never know so barkeep let s give it a go pour me a dream and play me a tune and i ll get along just as long as i have a song sit by the church and hear children sing i like to pretend they re singing for me memories of melodies and words that made me cry they have all abandoned me sit back and watch me die pour me a dream and play me a tune and i ll get along just as long as i have a song the river is wide and the ocean s so deep the harder i try the faster i sink into the rich of the dark the cheapest of tricks i ve lost the fire still i m sharpening my wick but it s just smoke and that s all so pour me a tune as blue as the moon and i ll get along just as long as i have a song i ll hum along and that is how i ll get along