It’s A Wonderful Thing To Be Me
This is the title of a song that Lou Ann and I used to sing with the Canyon Singers here in Sedona. It was written by Don Besig and Marcy Henchen.
Here are the lyrics:
When I wake up in the morning and I see a new day dawning
And I see the sky above me and I know somebody loves me,
then I want to stand and shout it , tell the whole wide world about it.
It’s a wonderful thing to be me!
I can hear the birds a singin’ and I fell like singin’ with ’em,
and a breeze is softly blowing
in my heart, I feel love growing,
For this day is just beginning; all at once I can’t help thinking,
What a wonderful thing to be me and to be free!
Free to walk along the river free to tumble in the grass,
free to chase away the gray clouds from the sky
Free to take your hand and wander through the meadows and the fields.
Free to capture all the world and call it mine! I’m feeling fine!
Oh the day has ended sweetly, now the evening comes to greet me,
In my mind I see tomorrow, no it won’t be filled with sorrow.
For I see a new day coming, through the meadows I’ll be running.
What a wonderful thing to be me, and to be free!
I have tears in my eyes as I remember singing this song with that wonderful group led so lovingly by Sandy Reid for some twenty five years. The words are universal for our lives and our time. There is so much stress and tension these days, if we watch TV or listen to the news. Lou Ann I were organizing a bunch of music and I found this song. The words immediately take me back to a time of my youth when I spent almost all day, outdoors.
I wish for all of you a new day coming, where you can wander through the meadows and the fields and connect with nature. Take a deep breath and sing this refrain: It’s a wonderful thing to be me and to be free! From my nostalgic heart to yours, Thomas
This is the song I was looking for. I couldn’t remember even the lyrics yesterday and it bugs me until 20 minutes ago I’ll send it popped into my mind I couldn’t remember the name of it. I sang this song 40 years ago in choir and I loved it. And then I song it basically as a lullaby for my son when he was a baby and a lot of my daycare babies and toddlers to help them sleep but couldn’t remember all the lyrics just part of it or the name. So thank you so much for helping me out.
Hello Carolyn!
Sorry we just got your message to us! We are so grateful for your sweet message! Loved that you sang this song to a lot of your daycare babies and toddlers! It truly is a powerful song!
We have put 365 of our blogs into an e-book and paperback on Amazon called: From My Heart to Yours by Thomas and Lou Ann Bruck – thank you so much for letting us know!
Much love and hugs to you!
So nostalgic seeing the words, we used to sing this inthe singing class at school! Remenbered only part of it but glad I could find the song !!! 🙂
Hello Anita!
What a treat to know you love this song too – It’s A Wonderful Thing To Be Me! We have turned these blogs into an e-book and paperback on Amazon: From My Heart To Yours by Thomas and Lou Ann Bruck! Thank you for your message!
When I was in grade school some 40 years ago, my school participated in a citywide music festival where all the kids from all the different schools across the entire city of Milwaukee came together at the arena. We performed a series of songs that had been taught to us in our music class. This was one of the songs that we sang! It’s so funny to recall this event. I still remember every single word to the song and it is uplifting. As a young inner city girl whose mother signed her up to participate in the segregation of schools, this song gives me hope. We are currently living in a time and age where we are so downtrodden and beaten down and just looking for an answer. This song reminds me that hope still exists, if we believe.
Hello C Jackson! There are tears in our eyes reading your message about the song ‘It’s a Wonderful Thing To Be Me’!
This is so exciting! We just got your message! We wrote an e-book and paperback from these blogs on Amazon:: From My Heart To Yours by Thomas and Lou Ann Bruck
What a fun and hopeful message from you! We also have 2 short videos on YouTube under Enriching Life Forever about people making a difference in their communities! And a podcast on YouTube From My Heart To Yours – we sing Kermit the Frogs song – Rainbow Connection! Thank you so much for your message!