I know something good about you

Wouldn’t this old world be better

If the folks we meet would say

"I know something good about you!"

And treat us just that way?

Wouldn’t it be fine and dandy

If each handclasp, fond and true,

Carried with it this assurance

"I know something good about you!"

Wouldn’t life be lots more happy

If the good that’s in us all

Were the only thing about us

That folks bothered to recall?

Wouldn’t life be lots more happy

If we praised the good we see?

For there’s such a lot of goodness

In the worst of you and me!

Wouldn’t it be nice to practice

That fine way of thinking, too?

You know something good about me;

I know something good about you.

Louis C. Shimon