Goodbye My Restless Child
Words and Music Pat Drummond

For Ron, Claire, Timothy and Amanda, Rebecca and Jason Drummond
Sandy and Bobby Miller and
Gina and Alan Frost

Chorus: Goodbye, Goodbye My Restless child
These waxen wings weren't made to fly
As hard as I believed they might
These things will have their way
But smile for me for I believe
neither you nor I should greive
When destiny bids one to leave and the other one to stay

On summer nights I sit outside
and listen to the wind
The song she brings so often sings
of things that might have been
Of where she's been and what she's seen
but where she's going to
That melody is not for me
She sings that song for you

Chorus

A wider world awaits you
I can see that in your face
And in that bright tomorrow
I know I will have no place
Your sun shines in a silver sky
So high above the mast
Mine slips toward the wine dark sea
To seek some peace at last

But smile for me for I believe
neither you nor I should greive
When destiny bids one to leave and the other one to stay

Your dreams cry from the future
Mine call me from the past
To bid me flee this destiny
is just too much to ask
"Would you see me fall witless
from my throne, Galadriel?"
If that's the part you'd have me play
It would not suit me well

Chorus: Goodbye, Goodbye My Restless child
Each thing that lives must learn to die
As hard as you might bid me fight
These things will have their way
But smile for me for I believe
Neither you nor I should greive
My destiny bids me to leave
and yours bids you to stay

"Eyes and teeth mate, eyes and teeth."

'Vale Ron Drummond'

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