Drink Deep

DRINK DEEP (as you grow old)

She wore a laced wedding dress
Fragile as baby's breath
He wore her name on his arm
Beneath his Navy blue uniform
While he fought in the Coral Sea
She lost the first baby
Drink deep as you grow old
All the love that you can hold

In her victory garden
Watching her seedlings
Reaching for the light of spring
Free, green, the opening
He came home a different man
They never talked about it again
Drink deep as you grow old
All the love that you can hold

She braid the girls' hair
Ironed their ribbons, taught 'em their prayers
He saved their baby shoes
And all the letters they wrote home too
Summers sweetened their time
Ripened grapes on the vine
Drink deep as you grow old
All the love that you can hold

She lays out his pills
She cleans up his spills
He can't remember her name
But it's love at first sight when he sees her again
Summer sweetened their time
Ripened grapes on the vine
Drink deep as you grow old
All the love that you can hold
Drink deep as you grow old
All the love that you can hold