You're the best thing that's happened to me, Marjorie

You're my favorite thought and sight to see, Marjorie

I'm lonesome and blue

When I'm not with you

You're the best thing that's happened to me.

 

They're the longest days, when I'm away

From the sweet protection of your loving ways.

But when I return, it's then I relearn

You're the best thing that's happened to me.

 

You're the best thing that's happened to me, Marjorie

You're my highest adventure and best dream, Marjorie

You are the rhyme

That completes my line

You're the best thing that's happened to me.

 

I thought I loved you when you said, "I do"

But my love grows deeper each year I'm with you.

At the end of our life, you'll be the world's best-loved wife,

You're the best thing that's happened to me.

 

You're the best thing that's happened to me, Marjorie

You're my hope forever and eternally

When life's day is done

We'll have just begun

You're the best thing that's happened to me.

 

 

Composed 4 October 1982

while returning from general conference.

Set to a tune I composed earlier.