By Aaron Hall, this version is from the original motion picture soundtrack for Fried Green Tomatoes

Sung on June 2, 2006 at Nicholas' Celebration of Life by Ed Harris

If I can help as I pass along
If I cheer somebody with a word or song
If I can show somebody he is traveling wrong
Then my living shall not be in vain

If I can do my duty as a good man ought
If I can bring back beauty to world of wrought
If I can spread loves message that the master taught
Then my living shall not be in vain

Then my living shall not be in vain
Then my living shall not be in vain
If I can help somebody as I pass along
Then my living shall not be in vain