An Evening In October

An evening in October the second month of Spring And in the Town of Emerald the common mynas sing And gold billed blackbird whistling on sunlit wattle tree And whoever coined the phrase was right 'the best things in life are free'. The best things in life are always free and we don't have to pay For the air we breathe and the water we drink and the sun that warms the day And most of us do not appreciate what Mother Earth supply We worry about little things and life we don't enjoy. The birds sing for the joy of Spring in sun and wind and rain They sing as if the Winter days will never come again They do not have mortgage to pay their roof the open sky They come and go at their own whim and they have their wings to fly. In sunlit park in Emerald just off of the busy street The mynas and the blackbirds in song seem to compete On an evening in October a warm and balmy day And for the better things in life we do not have to pay.