The Best That You Can Be

A guy I met came up to me and said I found this thing you call religion.
And being that there are so many laws it seems I’ve got some indecision.
I don’t know how I can follow all the laws that were bestowed upon us.
Tell me please what I should do observance is my problem please be honest.
I said to him:

Chorus: Do the things that you can do. Learn as much as you can learn.
Try as much as you can try. But be the best that you can be.

A friend came up to me and said, I’ve always had this thing you call religion,
But my practice has diminished And my service is with mechanical precision.
When I pray I have no feeling, words come out with very little meaning.
What can I do to get some inspiration send my prayers through the ceiling
I said to him: Chorus…..

All the students gathered round the bed of a great Rabbi who was dying.
They said Reb Zusha where you’re going they are waiting for you gladly why you crying.
He said when G-d asks why I was not as good as I can be I’ll have no answer.
So just be the best that you can be and when your time is up there’ll be no chances.
He said to them: Chorus….