Old Rodney

The best days in his life in the forever gone But the desire it is in him to keep living on Old Rodney loves life and he has no wish to die To him heaven and hell are based on a lie He wants to live on for as long as he can And die in his sleep without pain as a very old man Of a life after death and of a heaven or hell He says any deceased person he has known of their existence has not come back to tell In his late seventies he has never had children or a partner or a wife Though in his younger days he had many women in his life He looks fit and healthy for one of seventy nine And he enjoys nothing better than a carafe of red wine And at the local on Saturday night in the mood for song He feels happy to join in the pub sing along.