Enjoy yourself while you're still in the pink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself It's later than you think.
You work and work for years and years
You're always on the go
Never take a minute off
Too busy makin' dough
Some day, you say, you'll have your fun
When you're a millionaire
Imagine all the fun you'll have In your old rockin' chair
Enjoy yourself it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself while you're still in the pink
The years go by as quickly as a wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself
It's later than you think.
This, along with two or three other verses, was recorded back in the Dark Ages by Guy Lombardo, and by Bing Crosby, and probably by others, if memory serves me correctly. Why I remembered it? I guess I just felt good and needed to remind myself that today is the day in which we may enjoy God's creation, enjoy our lives, for the morrow will come all too soon and with no more than the promise of the "rocking chair" at best.
You all know me well enough to know that I pay little attention to lyrics, and I have said many times that I know one verse of a thousand songs, but I don't know any songs in their entirety.
Enjoy yourself while you're still in the pink!
It's later than you think.
7 comments:
Great advice! Love that you all are having temps in the 70's. We are supposed to get out of triple digits next week. *Hopeful*
Am I still pink? I dunno.
Those are very good lyrics--some that we should all live by. Tough to remember most days though.
It's a rain-threatening gloomy day here in west Michigan. Your post and this day made me think of the old-time radio show "Lights Out." It starts with the bell tolling as Arch Obler reads the words, "It . Is . Later . Than . You . Think."
Still hot and humid here - Still in the pink - mentally only.
Shelly, we are loving the cooler days and hope that you get some of that real soon.
Lin, possibly depends on the meaning of "in the pink." We should enjoy our days, though.
Chuck, just had a fierce rain with donder und blitzen and hail (smallish). "Lights Out" represents a gap in my knowledge of the old-time radio.
Grace, you'll get some cooler weather soon. Stay in the pink (mentally)!
It's always later than we think, but you are making every minute count, I think.
Shark, I do hope so! And I think you are as well.
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