I'LL BEGIN AGAIN
From "Scrooge" (1970)
(Leslie Bricusse)


(Scrooge says)
I'm alive! I'm alive!
I've got a chance to change
and I will not be man I was
I'll begin again
I will build my life
I will live to know that I fulfilled my life
I'll begin today
Throw away the past
And the future I build
will be something that will last
I will take the time I have left to live
and I will give it all that I have left to give
I will live my days for my fellow men
And I live in praise of that moment when
(sings)
I was able to begin again
I will start anew
I will make amends
And I will make quite certain 
that the story ends
On a note of hope
On a strong amen
And I will thank the world and remember when
I was able to begin again!



(Transcribed by Holly Tooker - December 2003)