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It is "The Way We Were" from a movie by the same name sung by Barbara Streisand. The movie is from the 1970s.

Hello, I'm new on this forum and I think I've found a great place to share my hobby! I wish you will like my compositions and that I can find help to get better and better. I will do my best to help the other composers as much as I can as well! Here is my last music name "Maybe This Is The End?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd6dOODp68o Waiting for your review guys :) !

Hi Maarten, Overall, a very good job! Some comments: mm. 1-2, the bowings at the beginning end up being backwards the way you have it written. I would mark the first note up bow. That makes it fit the crescendo and work out the rest of the bowings. m. 1, no need to mark the low C open, since you can't go lower than it, thus, it must be open. mm. 3-4, same as the first comments. m. 6, mark that start as a down bow, just to help the player out. It is intuitive, but think of it like a courtesy accidental. mm. 14-15, this screws up your bowings. I would split the slur so each measure is slurred, so measure 18 can be down bow. mm. 19-22, your accents on the second beat should be on a down bow, even if it is getting quieter. I would start the passage here on an up bow, then a down on the accent, then two more up bows on the non accented notes before the next accent. m. 24, find a way to get back to down bow here. m. 28-29, just an engraving thing; no need to put the tie in for a 16th note subdivision, since it's technically going to keep going like that anyway. m. 30-31, same comments as point No. 5. m. 35-36, it's not impossible, but would take practice to jump up the fast. The player will think that measure 35 will be in first position, and that they will jump to 4th position for the last note. It doesn't have to be done this way, but it's the most intuitive. Maybe put a staccato on the last note of 35 so that it makes the player feel a bit more justified. A comment about your notes: generally very good. Something for you to think about is jumping by intervals of a fifth within the same position. A player will most likely bar those two notes down with their first, second, or third fingers, before going to the next note. When writing, make sure you think about where the player will have to go from a barred note (like a guitar, almost). Good job!