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I Miss You,Love

From time to time, personal grief gets the better of me ; and, by way of distraction, I'll try to teach myself to play an old song on a new instrument. While hacking my way through "Danny Boy" , it occurred to me different words could be put to that fine old tune...

I Miss You Love

(Tune : Londonderry Air / Danny Boy)

1.

I miss you , Love:

Sometimes in early morning

I stop and touch

Your empty rocking chair –

I know you’re gone

But sometimes I forget,dear,

And my heart aches

Because you are not there.

2.

Your shy sweet smile

Still calls me to your side, Love

As it once did

So many years ago –

And in my dreams

It sparkles like an ember

To warm me with

Its golden afterglow.

3.

I thank you, Lord

For all the years You gave us ;

She’s in Your hands :

I know it had to be –

Ease Thou my pain

And help me be deserving -

Until rejoined

We share eternity.

Chorus

So many years

We walked through life together:

The smiles, the tears,

The sunshine and the rain-

Had I but known

Someday you’d have to leave me

I tell you, Love :

I’d do it all again !

June 25, 2007 in Music | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Little Hillary

While looking through a book of "old-timey" songs, I came across an Appalachian folk song that gets played a lot when Bluegrass or Old Time musicians "jam" in the parking lot: "Little Maggie".

(The letters shown in the text are guitar/banjo/dobro chords. Yes, they are strange: It's called "Mountain Modal". )

(D)Over yonder stands little(C) Maggie

(C)With a (D) dram glass (A) in her(D) hand.

(D) She's drinkin' down her (C) troubles

(C) An' courtin' with (A) another (D) man.

(That got me to thinking, and Lord, I just couldn't resist !!)

Over yonder stands little Hillary

A - tryin' to look Heaven-sent:

She's practicin' her "Down-Home" drawl

An' runnin' for Pres-I-dent.

The first time ah seed Li'l Hillary

She was Radical as could be:

Had her right fist raised in a "power salute"

Yellin': " Set them Panthers free !"

Next time ah seed li'l Hillary

She was Bubba Clinton's wife :

Got the feelin' if she had her way

He'd be Pres-I-dent fer life !

Take heed, take heed all ye Voters -

Pay  attention to the words ah said:

If you-all elect ol' Hillary ?

Yer gonna wish that you was dead !

May 16, 2007 in Music | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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