Something Good

 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!