Blue Balloon (The Hourglass Song)
-Robbie Benson
-from film "Jeremy"
-1973

I have a blue balloon, a happy tune
Long enough to last me all thro' the afternoon
I have the "New York Times" fourteen dimes
The explanation of the most profound nursery rhymes

Before the rivers run dry, before the last sad goodbye
Let's be kind to one another we can try
So don't just throw your love about it's not too late to find out
Before the sand has all run out of the hourglass

Too late to hide it now it's all around us now
oh how I want you girl come lie beside me now
While there still is time, and all my poems still rhyme
Let me love you now, we can drink the good good wine

Before the rivers run dry, before the last sad goodbye
Let us be kind to one another we can try
So don't just throw your love about you and me hey, find out
Before the sand has all run out of the hourglass