Be the best of whatever you are

(The Benguet State University Secondary Education Training Department (BSU-SETD) Class 1989 will be having a reunion on December 11, 2010. I can recall that our class graduation song was this song by Douglas Malloch. Maybe it is nice to sing it once again, and indeed live up to what it says. See you all.-che)

BE THE BEST OF WHATEVER YOU ARE
by Douglas Malloch

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill
Be a scrub in the valley--but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway some happier make;
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass--
But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here.
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do,
And the task we must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail--
Be the best of whatever you are!