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This Is All I Ask
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- Artist: Tony Bennett as sung on "Tony Bennett's Greatest Hits, Vol. III"
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Columbia CL 2313
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- peak Billboard position # 70 in 1963
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also charted in 1963 by Burl Ives at # 63
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- Words and Music by Gordon Jenkins
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As I approach the prime of my life
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I find I have the time of my life
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Learning to enjoy at my leisure
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All the simple pleasures
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And so I happily concede
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That this is all I ask
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This is all I need
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Beautiful girls, walk a little slower when you walk by me
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Lingering sunsets, stay a little longer with the lonely sea
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Children everywhere, when you shoot at bad men, shoot at me
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Take me to that strange, enchanted land grown-ups seldom understand
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Wandering rainbows, leave a bit of color for my heart to own
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Stars in the sky, make my wish come true before the night has flown
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And let the music play as long as there's a song to sing
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And I will stay younger than Spring
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This Is All I Ask
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| Tony Bennett |
