Derrick

Way back when the days were warm and long

Summer camp is where our rhythm found its song

Just a couple kids laughing in the sun

I didn't know that you would be my only one

Almost forty years we’ve been on this ride

Through every season, you were by my side

Thank you for the friendship that we built back then

I’d go back and live it all again

Oh Derrick, you always put others first

Your selfless heart is a beautiful thing

So encouraging, with the comfort you bring

Always stepping up, always willing to help

You care for everybody else before yourself

You’ve been my friend through the joy and the tears

My steady rock for almost forty years

And now that I’m looking at this ring on my hand

I’m so proud to call you my fiancé, my man

Fast forward to the college days we knew

Making memories, watching how our connection grew

You were always showing everybody that you cared

Giving everything you had, with so much to share

No matter what the situation put us through

I could always count on the goodness in you

We grew up together, took on the world

And you never stopped looking out for your girl

Oh Derrick, you always put others first

Your selfless heart is a beautiful thing

So encouraging, with the comfort you bring

Always stepping up, always willing to help

You care for everybody else before yourself

You’ve been my friend through the joy and the tears

My steady rock for almost forty years

And now that I’m looking at this ring on my hand

I’m so proud to call you my fiancé, my man

From the summer camp cabins to the campus yard

Loving you has never, ever been hard

You sacrifice your time, you give it all away

And you lift my spirit up every single day

Almost four decades of a beautiful truth

I get to marry the friend of my youth

Oh Derrick, you always put others first

Your selfless heart is a beautiful thing

So encouraging, with the comfort you bring

Always stepping up, always willing to help

You care for everybody else before yourself

You’ve been my friend through the joy and the tears

My steady rock for almost forty years

Yeah, I'm looking at this ring on my hand

Forever with my fiancé, forever with my man