Story Behind The Song

Shelley Vaughan Williams wrote this as a poem, and asked Peter Bullene Robinson to set it to music, and so he did.

Lyrics

If I could be younger and stronger than me,
I would fly across the blue skies to a sun-blessed land,
Flying like an elegant swan,
Dipping and saying my good-bye....
And there on that golden sand,
Begin again the adventure of my dieing and of wiser rebirth....
If I could be younger and stronger than me,
I would fly across the blue skies to a sun-blessed land,
Flying like an elegant swan.

--- instrumental interlude ---

And there on that golden sand,
Begin again the adventure of my dieing and of wiser rebirth....
If I could be younger and stronger than me,
I would fly across the blue skies to a sun-blessed land,
Flying like an elegant swan,
Dipping and saying my good-bye,
Dipping and saying my good-by....