Anniversary Rag
Music & lyrics by David Greathouse
© 2016, Sourdough Music, ASCAP

Well, I guess we've been together for a while now
And I don't regret a minute or a mile, no how
Of this road we've pushed and pulled these bones along now for so long
To the point where we rattle in them now
I let you get the best of me that summer
I was testing out and stretching out those wings I'd found
When I fell into the shadows of the starlight in your eyes
You picked me up and you've never let me down
Those summer nights beside the lake lie safe in memory
Moonlight and fireflies both witnessed those beginnings
Your eighteen years felt so right against my twenty
Two hearts entangled, but just one was beat-ing
Then summer ended and autumn sent us separate ways
We kept the blues at bay writing letters, counting days
Somehow we made it to that sweet September Saturday
History's the rest, they say

Well, the best of me's still wrapped around your finger
While the rest of me is happy just to linger near
Basking in your fascinating, passionate, exasperating
Way you make the doldrums disappear
But I haven't said "I love you" near enough, this much I know
Since the new wore off so many hopes and dreams ago
But I hope you know it's true, I'm glad I said "I do"
And I'd do it all again with you
No trail has ever raised its head to smile and greet us
No breeze has breathed to ease us forward from behind
Fair weather never let her fare wear out her welcome
But you and I've survived both hell-fire and maelstrom!
'Cause we've been friends longer than we ain't been
To the bitter end, we promised that we'd hang in there
Makes my head swim, just thinking 'bout those kids back then
I'm mighty glad we lacked the sense to not dive in

Well, I guess we've been together for a while now
And by now there's more behind us than out front, old gal
The years piled up in decade, all those trips around the sun
And the more we make, the faster they run
The passion fires have dwindled to a coal's glow
Oh, bed springs never creak, now it's just old bones
But I love you like a fool that rushes in, I always will
My cohort, my beloved, my best friend
Some days I swear there's just no way to win for losing
Some days, I dare say, we're just  beggin' for a bruisin'
Some days it feels like we got hung up in a wringer
But far as stories go we got a real humdinger!
A few more years we'll be needing megaphones my dear
To hear all of those sweet nothings whispered in our ears
So happy anniversary, and here's to little victories!
You plus I still equals we. And that's a win to me!