Elliott Carter - Let's Be Gay

Youth's the season made for joys;
Love is then our duty
She alone who that employs
Well deserves her beauty
Let's be gay while we may
Drink and sport yet today;
Let's be gay
While we may
Beauty's a flow'r despis'd in decay

Let us drink and sport today;
Ours is not tomorrow
Love with youth flies swift away
Age is naught but sorrow
Let's be gay
Dance and sing;
Let's be gay
Time's on the wing
Dance and sing
Time's on the wing
Life never knows the return of spring