SEPTEMBER OF MY YEARS
Arranged and Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
LP Originally Released September 1965
The first time I heard this song, I was 14 years old and while I liked it very much, I didn't feel particularly identified with its lyrics. Now, 55 years later, the song has acquired deep and very relevant meanings for me. It has become one of the iconic numbers in Frank Sinatra's repertoire.
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
