Let Time Go Lightly - Harry Chapin

I let time go lightly when I’m here with you

I let time go lightly when the day is through

I keep a watch on time when I’ve have work to do

I let time go lightly with you

Morning, a time for breaking ground and sowing seeds

And yet we give up our sunshine

So we can buy what we need

That leaves the evening, to share a fire with a friend or two

To lose sight of the hours

To go lightly with you

I let time go lightly when I’m here with you

I let time go lightly when the day is through

I keep a watch on time when I’ve got work to do

I let time go lightly with you

Old friends, they mean much more to me than the new friends

Cause they can see where you are

And they know where you’ve been

Music, has been my oldest friend, my fiercest foe

Cause it can take me so high

(High…) Yes it can make me so low

When I was a child my mother would help me along

She’d rock me to sleep and sing me a song

So I learned to love the music of all the tunes in my mind

The changing of chords, the rhythm of time

I let time go lightly when I’m here with you

I let time go lightly when the day is through

I keep a watch on time when I’ve got work to do

I let time go lightly with you

Yes I let time go lightly with you, and a fire, and a friend or two

With you and a fire and a friend or two

A friend or two and you