Life is great! So sing about it, as we can and as we should-- shops and buses, towns and people, village, farmland, field and wood. Life is great and life is given. Life is lovely, free and good. Life is great! - whatever happens, snow or sunshine, joy or pain, hardship, grief or disillusion, suffering that I can't explain. Life is great if someone loves me, holds my hand and calls my name. Life is great! - the love of lovers, whispered words and longing eyes; love that gazes at the cradle where a child of loving lies; love that lasts when youth has faded, bends with age, but never dies. Love is giving and receiving - boy and girl, or friend with friend. Love is bearing and forgiving all the hurts that hate can send. Love's the greatest way of living: hoping, trusting to the end. Great is God, who lived among us: truth in Jesus seen and done, healing, teaching, hate resisting, loving where we scoff and shun, dying, rising, joy surprising reaching out to everyone.