You and I, we are simple things Oh, simple things we are Feel the sun and all the joy it brings To the simple things we are Water rushing from a spring Is the simple thing we are But any hour of any day there is wonder In all our striving and our courage and our thunder You and I, we are simple things Oh, simple things we are At any hour of any day there is wonder In all our skiving and our cowardice and our lying and our blunders You and I, we are simple things Oh, simple things we are Simple things we are