Happiness is Just a Smile Away

Although this is not a genre that I am used to, I thought I would give it a try.


So........Get out the twanging guitars and the dim colored lights to set the mood…Here’s one for the old boy that got tired of trying to live up to undue expectations……


Chorus:Happiness is just a smile away.
It won’t matter what you do or say.
So dry your many tears, and put your grief away,
‘Cause happiness is just a smile away.

I told her I was leaving.
I couldn’t take it anymore.
We’d drifted far apart,
And, I was walking out the door.

I gave up trying to be
The perfect man of my wife’s dreams.
I lived my life each day
Too plain for her grander schemes.

She longed for champagne treasures
On a blue collar point of view.
No way I could keep her
In things she wanted to be used to.

Chorus:Happiness is just a smile away.
It won’t matter what you do or say.
So dry your many tears, and put your grief away,
‘Cause happiness is just a smile away.


I love her, but I’ll give her
A chance to find her happiness
A man she can mold and
Who will pass her financial test.

I’m giving up and getting out.
I’m smiling as I pack today,
I know that we are through,
And happiness is just a smile away.

Chorus:Happiness is just a smile away.
It won’t matter what you do or say.
So dry your many tears, and put your grief away,
‘Cause happiness is just a smile away