It Does Seem Sad To Say

Suppose from life we receive what is only our due And that self praise is no praise i hold to be true But nowadays those not into self promotion in life may not succeed Human values have changed very much so indeed Than when i was a teenager a decade short of my prime In retrospect going back half of a century in time When those into self promotion were those others tried to drag down They never became the best loved in the town But self promotion does seem the in thing of today If you do not praise self as an unknown you will stay The fact does remain and fact never lie That we live in the age of the me, myself and i And it does seem sad to say so very sad indeed That the humble are those who in life don't succeed.