What’s in Being a Friend
People we Texans call Folks, some are funny, some are jokes
in life as love, ya take’em for what they’re worth in the pokes
Some ya can’t help but forget, others will never be forgotten
Don’t much matter whether they were mostly good or rotten
Might have come to know’em in yo’re hometown grow’n up
Meet some in your life sharing something like coffee in a cup
However ya came to know’em ain’t so much in what matters
It’s in ways they come to your mind in life’s spits & splatters
Regardless of how or why it mighta started in the beginning
they gave ya some’n of mean’n & value that’s never ending!
We all share a hanker’n for make’n and have’n good friends
Someone who listens & cares for ya thru life’s twists & bends
A special person ya can share laughter, joy, happiness at times
They are like warmth in your soul in how they make it shine
Times of sadness, frustration or illness they’ll be by your side
even if in some ways things ya sorta feel ya might wanna hide
but there’s this kind of unspoken bond that will never go away
transcend’n time & distance even if ya may not talk every day
What matters most is know’n they are with ya thru thick & thin
And that folks are the real facts of What’s in being a FRIEND!