The Best Advice I Ever Got

The Best Advice I Ever Got

The best advice I ever got,

From songs I’ve loved and learned by heart,

Helps me live the way I ought.

Climb every mountain, ford every stream,

Follow every rainbow till you find your dream.

The best advice I ever got.

Just keep swimmin’, just keep swimmin’,

You better get to livin’.

Helps me live the way I ought.

Let’s go fly a kite,

Up to the highest height.

The best advice I ever got.

The cover is not the book

So open it up and take a look.

Helps me live the way I ought.

But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger,

You’ll learn thing you never knew you never knew.

The best advice I ever got.

Be our guest, be our guest,

Get your worries off your chest.

Helps me live the way I ought.

I’ll walk down the lane, with a happy refrain,

Just singin’, singin’ in the rain.

The best advice I ever got.

Make believe you're brave and the trick will take you far. 

You may be as brave as you make believe you are.

Helps me live the way I ought.

Songs both old and new

Hold lines that get me through. 

The best advice I ever got

Helps me live the way I ought.

Today's prompt: (1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text, and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way. If you can use two elements, great – and if you can do all three, wow!

(I followed the villanelle form [sort of] and used lines from musicals that I have loved along the way.  I'm sure you can identify most of them.  I challenge you to identify all of them.)