My Way / Hermann Prey 

   


   And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain. 
   My friend, I will say it clear. 
   I will state my case of which I'm certain. 
   I've lived a life that's full. 
   I travelled each and every highway. 
   And more, much more than this, I did it my way. 

   Regrets, I had a few. But then again too few to mention. 
   I did what I had to do, and saw it through without exemption. 
   I planned each charted course, each careful step, along the byway. 
   And more, much more than this, I did it my way. 

   Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew, 
   when I bit off more than I could chew. 
   But through it all, when there was doubt, 
   I ate it up and spit it out. 
   I faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way. 

   I've loved. I've laughed and cried. 
   I've had my fill, my share of losing. 
   And now as tears subside, I find it all so amusing. 
   To think I did all that, 
   And may I say "Not in a shy way, 
   Oh no, Oh no, not me. 
   I did it my way." 

   For what is a man? What has he got? 
   If not himself, then he has naught 
   To say the things he truly feels, 
   and not the words of one who kneels. 
   The record shows I took the blows, and did it my way. 
   Yes, I did it my way. 


   
     Hermann Prey (Bass-Baritone)
     Born: July 11, 1929 - Berlin, Germany
     Died: July 22, 1998 - Krailling, Bavaria, Germany