Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight...

As a Merchant Marine, you are required to leave your family behind to support them and sometimes...your country. You leave to get and give your best. I take the same tact in relationships I form. Relationships with friends, family, lovers and if I have one...an audience.

Write when you have something say...not because you feel people want to hear your voice. In all that we do, we should do it for the best reasons. It's the only way to give your uttermost. It reveals that you consider what you do special as you also consider those you do it for just as special. It's always a double edged sword as the receiver will never truly understand. They think you leave because you've grown tired or are moving on when only the opposite is true. You've drawn close enough to know they deserve better than you can offer at the moment...so you go to get it. They'll get it someday. Like you all are getting it now ;-) A day, a week...a month? It don't matter. As always...there's a truth in this....I'm out.

Goodnight, sweetheart, well it's time to go,

Goodnight, sweetheart, well it's time to go,

I hate to leave you, but I really must say,

Goodnight, sweetheart, goodnight.

Goodnight, sweetheart, well it's time to go,

Goodnight, sweetheart, well it's time to go,

I hate to leave you, but I really must say,

Goodnight, sweetheart, goodnight.

Well, it's three o'clock in the morning,

And baby, I just can't do right,

Well, I hate to leave you, baby,

I don't mean maybe, because I love you so.

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do

Goodnight, sweetheart, well it's time to go,

(Do-do-do-do-do)

Goodnight, sweetheart, well it's time to go,

(Ba-do ba-do)

I hate to leave you, but I really must say,

Goodnight, sweetheart, goodnight.

Well your mother and your father,

They won't like it if we stay up too late

Well, I hate to leave you, baby,

I don't mean maybe, you know I hate to go.

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do

Goodnight, sweetheart, well it's time to go,

(Do-do-do-do-do)

Goodnight, sweetheart, well it's time to go,

(Ba-do ba-do)

I hate to leave you, but I really must say,

Goodnight, sweetheart, goodnight.

Songwriters: Calvin Carter / James Hudson