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Thread #127137 Message #4059333
Posted By: Joe Offer
15-Jun-20 - 12:12 PM
Thread Name: Singing Paul Anka's 'My Way' can get you killed
Subject: ADDPOP: My Way (Paul Anka)
Wikipedia says: "My Way" is a song popularized in 1969 by Frank Sinatra set to the music of the French song "Comme d'habitude" composed by Jacques Revaux with lyrics by Gilles Thibaut and Claude François and first performed in 1967 by Claude François. Its English lyrics were written by Paul Anka and are unrelated to the original French song.
I'm a Catholic church musician, and sing a lot at funerals. Church rules frown on recorded music, but lots of families want Sinatra's "My Way" played at the funeral Mass when the crotchety family patriarch finally kicks the bucket. Some priests will allow it, some won't. I hate it, but it's the priest who gets to decide.
So, for the sake of completeness, here are the Paul Anka lyrics.
MY WAY (from the Anka-Sinatra Duet) (Paul Anka)
And now, the end is near And so I face the final curtain. My friends, I’ll say it clear, And state my case, of which I’m certain. I’ve lived a life that’s full, I traveled each and every highway. And more, much more than this, I did it my, my way.
Regrets, I’ve had a few, But then again, too few to mention. I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption. And I planned each charted course, each careful step along life’s by way And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
Yes, there were times, I’m sure you knew, When I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out. I faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way.
I loved, I laughed, I cried I had my fill, my share of losing. And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing. Just to think I did all that And may I say, not in a shy way, Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way.
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has not To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels The record shows I took the blows and did it my way.
To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels The record shows I took the blows and did it my, my way.