It's in the Nature of Things: A Song lyric

I had a letter from my Ma 

Which said come right away

Your dear grandpa is ninety-four 

And he hasn't long to stay 

So if you want to see him 

Before his great adieu 

Then grab yourself a berth my son 

On the rocky mountain blue.

It's in the nature of things

All creatures die

We're born we love we fight and strive

It's called being alive

It's in the nature of things

We can't stay on

There has to be some Winter dark

Before we are reborn

Well now I found my old grandpa

A rocking  in his chair

He didn't seem at all surprised 

To see me standing there

Laughing merrily he said
You've come to say goodbye
Well youngster I have news for you
I'm feeling very spry

Then grandpa tottered to his feet
And said boy come with me
The exact spot to bury me
I want for you to see
It's where I courted Mary
So many years ago
The very place
Where she said yes
Her lovely face aglow

It's in the nature of things
All creatures die
We're born we love
We fight and strive
It's called being alive
It's in the nature of things
We can't stay on
There has to be some Winter dark
Before we are reborn

Then grandpa lifted some fine soil
And held it in his hand
He said son in the scrap of earth
Are all the years of man
The blood of my grand pappy
And your grand pappy too
Are living in this mite of earth
It's our soil through and through  

Well ever since that talk with him
I aint been scared to die
Although I'm not so sure as him
There is a bye and bye
We buried him that next years fall
Beneath his favourite tree
And on his grave sweet flowers bloom
As purty as can be.

It's in the nature of things
All creatures die
We're born we love we fight and strive
It's called being alive
It's in the nature of things
We can't stay on
There has to be some Winter dark
Before we are reborn.

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