continued........ (my finger slipped!)

Anyway, singing REDWING, and adding at the end the chorus:

And the moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin, His boots are cracking, for the want of blacking, And his old baggy trousers they need mending, before they send him to the Dardanelles.

When I finished, one of the Residents was just laughing so completely, I asked him what was happening, He said to me "I remember learning that when I was 5!" Remember, this fellow was in our special care unit because of Alzheimers' disease! Every time that I sang that song there, he would join with me smiling and at the end would say to me something like "That was pretty good, wasn't it!"

I have many other stories of Residents who would participate so completely with the music, it would sometimes cause me to stop and have to start again because the response would be so unexpected. And as always, the faces of the staff as they see and hear this are always a treat to watch.

Keep posting, Night owl, everybody seems to love a good yarn like this one is turning out to be. Helps us to keep the humanity in what we do and appreciate the people around us.

Musicman