COMES ONCE IN A LIFETIME
From the Broadway Show "Subways Are For Sleeping" (1961)
(Jule Styne / Betty Comden / Adolph Green)

Sydney Chaplin & Carol Lawrence (Broadway Production) - 1961
Judy Garland - 1962
Carol Burnett - 1963

Also recorded by: Edmund Hockridge; Lester Lanin;
Edmundo Ros; Dave Grusin; Percy Faith; Della Reece.


Every day, just go along dawn till sundown
Here's a rundown
Every day that comes, comes once in a lifetime

Take each day and gather the rosebuds in it
Fill each minute
Every day that comes, comes once in a lifetime

Think of now, tomorrow is waiting in the wings
Who knows what it brings
While the future waits, the present swings

Day to day, in Brooklyn or China 'cross the bay
Only once comes this particular sky
Only once these precious hours go by
Only once in a lifetime the day comes by
So live, live, live, live today

Think of now, tomorrow is waiting in the wings
Who knows what it brings
While the future waits, the present swings

From day to day, in Brooklyn or China 'cross the bay
Only once comes this particular sky
Only once these precious hours go by
Only once in a lifetime a day comes by
So live, live, live, come on and live today


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2005)