"My Way" is a popular song, which in its English-language version is an adaptation by Paul Anka (who wrote the English lyrics and acquired the rights to the original French version and rewrote it into an English song) of the French song "Comme d'habitude", written by Claude François and Jacques Revaux with lyrics by Claude François and Gilles Thibaut. The English version retains only the melody, as the lyrics have been rewritten and are totally different from the original ones. Released on the album of the same name in 1969, "My Way" became the signature song for Frank Sinatra. The lyrics of "My Way" tell the story of a man who is nearing death, and introspectively looks back at his life whilst fictionally speaking to a friend who is sitting next to him. In the United Kingdom, "My Way" was an immediate hit, reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart in Spring 1969 and becoming the year's best-selling single there. Remarkably, the song "My Way" then re-entered the singles chart nine more times between 1969 and 1994, achieving placements between numbers 18 and 39. In all "My Way" holds the UK Singles Chart record for most total weeks of 124 on the chart, across all these runs. Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder requested the song for his final military sendoff prior to the inauguration of Angela Merkel.
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