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.)
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