Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life
Words & Music by P. & V. Garvey
sung by John Denver
on Rhymes & Reasons (1969)
G
Today is the first day
C
Of the rest of my life.
Am
I wake as a child
Em
To see the world begin.
On monarch wings
Am Em
And birthday wonderings.
D
Want to put on faces.
Am A7 D
Walk in the wet and cold.
G Bm Em
And look forward to my growing old.
D
To grow is to change.
Em
To change is to be new.
Am
To be new is to be young again.
C D
I barely remember when
Em Am Em
My memories are stolen by the morning.
Em Am Em
Blotted out by the suns hypnotic eye.
Em D
G
Today is the first day
C
Of the rest of my life.
Am
I wake as a child
Em
To see the world begin.
On monarch wings
Am Em
And birthday wonderings.
D
Want to put on faces.
Am A7 D
Walk in the wet and cold.
G Bm Em
And look forward to my growing old.