I hope to one day soon bring the following song into Al Fresco’s Place Recording Studio in Louisville for a proper recording session.  This is a song I wrote in honor of a particular graduating high school class.  I sang it for them at a baccalaureate service before graduation.  I had not played it for a few years and only recently revisited it.  When I dusted it off, I found an even greater appreciation for the song than the day I wrote it.  Time and experience can do that.  Be they good times or bad times, we learn from our experiences.  How we use that knowledge helps to define us.  I say go make some progress as you find your way.

You’re Gonna Find Your Way 

There’s a new horizon

Out there just before the dawn

When the mist and the haze has lifted

You’ll find a path to carry on

Some days filled with laughter

And some days filled with tears

This day is here to remember

Year after year after year…

 

CHORUS

It’s a big tough world out there

There are gonna be some hard days

There will also be times when you find

You find all of the rights words to say….

Like I know…yes I know…

You’re gonna find your way

 

This day will always be here

For you to take a look back

You’ll shake your head and laugh at what

You shared and what you had

And you know you will press onward

You might even speak the rights

Take a long long look around you

Cos you know you’re going to fight the good fight.

REPEAT CHORUS

 

I just like that song.  I enjoy reading it.  I enjoy playing it much more.

I wrote another graduation song many years ago.  I have played it at graduation time for a number of years.  I will share that one with you in the last week of May when graduation season is in full swing around these parts.  I hope you don’t mind if I indulge again.

In the meantime…

Speak the rights.

Danny Johnson