Try to Remember (1960)
(w) Tom Jones (m) Harvey Schmidt. (I) Off Broadway Musical: The Fantasticks by Jerry Orbach. (P) The Brothers Four. (P) Ed Ames. (R) Gladys Knight and the Pips in medley with “The Way We Were”.
Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a tender and callow fellow.
Try to remember, and if you remember, then follow.

[The Chorus] Follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow.

Try to remember when life was so tender
That no one wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember, and if you remember, then follow.

[The Chorus] Follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow. [x3]

Deep in December, it’s nice to remember,
Although you know the snow will follow.
Deep in December, it’s nice to remember,
Without a hurt the heart is hollow.
Deep in December, it’s nice to remember,
The fire of September that made us mellow.
Deep in December, our hearts should remember and follow.