All I Have Left With Me

Though in distance from them i do live far away The friends of my past i remember today The bond of friendship weakened due to absence but good memories of them with me remain And sometimes in my thoughts i meet them again They have formed new friendships and in life moved on Though like me perhaps they recall memories of days long gone Perhaps if we met we would talk of the past And on looking back the years say how time went so fast Like is said in life every day a new challenge to face Some of them like me live far from the home place Some of them grandparents some of them are dead Our best years behind us old age is ahead All i have left with me is the memory Of my friends of the past and of what used to be And i never may more hear the lowing of a cow In the quiet of the dawn by the River Finnow.