(peak Billboard position # 19 in 1968)Words and Music by Bobby GoldsboroIn the spring of my life she came to meShe brought sunshine where winter winds had blownThen I took her for my wife in the spring of my lifeAnd she brought me a joy I'd never knownAnd the years they went by in the spring of my lifeAnd in summer she blessed me with a childLove continued to grow in the summer of my lifeAnd in every morning sun I saw her smileBut in the autumn of my years I noticed the tearsAnd I knew that our life was in the pastThough I tried to pretend, I knew it was the endFor the autumn of my life had come at lastNow what, what do you say to a child of ten?How do you tell him his daddy's goin' away?Do I tell him that I reached the autumn of my lifeAnd that he'll understand some winter's day?Now a rose can't be found on a snow-covered groundAnd the sun cannot shine through cloudy skiesBut I'm richer, you see, for the years she gave to meAnd I'm content in the autumn of my life