it's the summer of '48   i'm in love   with isabel   she's a small town girl   i'm a poor town boy   who just got home from the war      and she said baby   did all that death and dying   make ya scared to live?   i told her no   i said the prospect of her love   your life,    i think i'm wanna be givin you   the rest of mine    isabel      so let's build a family   let's raise a home   ah isabel now   i will work it through   raise a boy who learns to love   maybe a girl who loves like you do   cause in my life   i suppose there are miracles   and maybe i have lived to tell   that in my life    now here was one love   and i want a love as well   for the rest of mine    isabel      yeah cause we're young   we grow old   but there's life in between   that's another thing   i give you the best of me   we're young    we grow old   but this love in between   now that is something   i give you the best    well the best in me      isabel i'm scared   cause you know the longer i live   well the shorter my life seems in my mind   i got sick last year   and i don't wanna miss my springtime      so i asked her baby   did all this death and dying   did it, did it make you scared to live?   she tells me no   she said the prospect of my love and my life   says she wants to be given   the rest of mine    isabel   take the best of mine    isabel      well steve still likes to    open the doors by himself   so we stand bout three feet back of him   and isabel measures out her steps   so it don't look like    she's got a weight on him      and in my life   i suppose there are miracles   and maybe i have lived to tell   in my life   well here was one love   and i want a love as well   for the rest of mine   isabel      cause we're young    we grow old   but there's life in between   that is something