September Of My Years

 

Written by:  Jimmy Van Heusen

Written by:  Sammy Cahn

Arranged by:  Gordon Jenkins – Quincy Jones & Billy Byers

From the Album:  Sinatra at the Sands with Count Basie Orchestra

Label:  Reprise – Reprise

Recorded:  5/27/65 – 1/26/66 to 2/1/66 (live in Las Vegas)

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One day you turn around and it's summer

Next day you turn around and it's fall

And the springs and the winters of a lifetime

Whatever happened to them all?

 

As a man who has always had the wand'ring ways

Now I'm reaching back for yesterdays

'Til a long-forgotten love appears

And I find that I'm sighing softly as I near

September, the warm September of my years

 

As I man who has never paused at wishing wells

Now I'm watching children's carousels

And their laughter's music to my ears

And I find that I'm smiling gently as I near

September, the warm September of my years

 

The golden warm September of my years