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Thread #99099 Message #1972924
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
19-Feb-07 - 05:32 PM
Thread Name: What makes a person a good songwriter?
Subject: RE: What makes a person a good songwriter?
That's a wonderful song, The Villan.
Another observation of a woman in a nursing home who was strapped into her wheelchair, completely paralyzed except for one finger that she tapped in rhythm while I sang:
"She remembers the sweet smell of freshly-baked apples
That came from the wood-burning stove
And the songs that her mother would sing to herself
And the laughter when father came home
And somewhere inside her there's still that young girl
With a tortoise-shell comb in her hair
And sometimes the memories come back with a song
As surely as if she were there"
Jerry