I may not be here always
But I am here right now
I don’t step on diamond causeways
But do feel near myself somehow
It is true I was once in Vienna
For a little while
Soon I will go to Sienna
To savour the Italian style
Railway carriages will be my shelter
For mile on Tuscany mile we ride
A smile for this springtime delta
With the mother of the bride
Not that I could help her
For the daughter is in charge
And in that heat we may swelter
While the vino is served so so large
These are different days
Than what they might have been
Yes, these are convoluted ways
The like so so seldom seen
The path could have gone elsewhere
The shelter not so secure or calm
A passion still to find there
To walk out arm in arm
But with neither land nor money
The prospects were not so bright
Far from the milk and honey
It became hard to see the light
I may not have been here always
Though I am here right now
I didn’t see the diamond causeways
But did find myself somehow
