Isabel Lyrics

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