I KNOW SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT YOU

Wouldn't this old world be better

If the folks we meet would say-

"I know something good about you!"

And treat us just that way?

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Wouldn't it be fine and dandy

If each handclasp, fond and true,

Carried with it this assurance-

"I know something good about you!"

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Wouldn't life be lots more happy

If the good that's in us all

Were the only thing about us

that folks bothered to recall?

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Wouldn't life be lots more happy

If we praised the good we see?

For there's such a lot of goodness

in the worst of you and me!

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Wouldn't it be nice to practise

That fine way of thinking, too?

You know something good about me,

I know something good about you?

Louis C. Shimon