'Tis True Enough

'Tis true enough mate your best days may be gone But with your life's battles you do carry on Born to poor parents on Poverty Street But with gusto the challenges of life you meet In your early fifties and your hair quite gray And for you no such a thing as an easy pay Without children and one who never had a wife But you are one who knows about the hard life You may be one not destined for to grow old And the story of your life may not be told A street kid and homeless when you were fourteen And only the hard life you ever have seen On life's hardest road you have travelled your share But you are a brave one and your type are rare.