Every year I watch "It's A Wonderful Life" at Christmas.  Each year I get a little more weepy.  I have always wanted to to write a song about the movie, or Bedford Falls, the (fictional?) town in the film.  This will always be one of my favorite songs I have written.

There’s an old man in his rocking chair

Watching cars go by on the highway where

The old main street used to be

He remembers a time not so long ago

That kids would play in his yard full of snow

Now there’s no one there

He whispers to the air . . .

        Goodnight Bedford Falls

        Goodnight Bedford Falls

        Memories of our past are the only things that last

        Goodnight Bedford Falls

The movie house and general store

Aren’t in business any more

Since the new Wall-mart moved in across the street

A cookie cutter product line

Replaced everything at the five and dime

Now it’s all the same . . .

But it’s all brand names

        Chorus

                Goodnight Gary, Goodnight Abilene

                Goodnight every town there’s ever been

There’s an old man climbing into bed

He tucks himself in with his quilt bedspread

That his wife made, but she passed on years ago

The past is slowly wearing down

Like lonely old men and sleepy ghost towns

Picture perfect scenes

Hidden in our dreams

        Chorus

Picture perfect scenes are hidden in our dreams

Goodnight Bedford Falls