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Tune Req: Songs about dementia
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Subject: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: Donuel Date: 05 Mar 24 - 04:18 PM The Dutchman by Steve Goodman https://www.joincake.com/blog/songs-about-dementia/ |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 05 Mar 24 - 07:06 PM Very convenient topic. As I have watched a dozen friends slip into the deep fathom five. Currently, reading, for the third time: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter By: Sherwin B. Ireland 1994 - Alfred A. Knoph pub Sincerely, Gargoyle No matter the end ... dementia/stroke/Alzheimer's - the final end is lack of oxygen |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GerryM Date: 06 Mar 24 - 02:50 AM (Don't Know What Was) The Last Thing On My Mind, Sue Trainor parody of Tom Paxton's The Last Thing on My Mind. Lyrics & links at Mudcat thread https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=23726 |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: Backwoodsman Date: 06 Mar 24 - 03:48 AM Harvey Andrews - ‘She Saw Him Smile’. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GUEST,PHJim Date: 06 Mar 24 - 06:00 AM Donuel, the Dutchman was the first song that came into my head too, but although Steve Goodman did a marvelous cover, it's actually by a fellow Chicago songwriter, Michael Smith. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GUEST Date: 06 Mar 24 - 06:08 AM -“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” by Glen Campbell -“While He Still Knows Who I Am” by Kenny Chesney -“Veronica” by Elvis Costello |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: Georgiansilver Date: 06 Mar 24 - 09:23 AM I did knowa few but I have forgotten them. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Mar 24 - 11:29 AM Dear Pat - by Henry Peacock, to the tune of Rambleaway 1. Dear Pat, I am writing this letter today After so many years, I have so much to say You walked away without saying goodbye After all of this time, I am still wondering why 2. Dear Henry, How nice to hear from an old friend I hope this will help you sleep soundly again Yes, I was a bitch, but you must understand Today I am holding your heart in my hand 3. Dear Pat, I can’t tell you how happy I am! Can you tell me what happened to Kathy and Pam? What have you been doing and where have you been? Did you ever find fame on the stage and the screen? 4. Dear Henry, There’s something I think you should know Pat started forgetting things ten years ago She cannot remember, I’m sorry to say Even the things that she did yesterday 5. What was it in the words that I wrote That made you remember those days so remote? Can anything bring them to mind once again? Will your letter to me be the last one you send? 6. You never apologised, never explained Why you went away, and why I remained I never enjoyed days as happy, and yet You can’t remember - and I can’t forget |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: keberoxu Date: 06 Mar 24 - 06:56 PM Thank you, henryp, for that lyric. I have a loved one with Alzheimer's. That lyric resonated a lot with me. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 06 Mar 24 - 10:06 PM Henry R.P. Your tears they will weep. For many for many a long while. The lengths run many long miles. Sincerely, Gargoyle Real while you can You brilliant young posies. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GUEST,Patrick Date: 07 Mar 24 - 03:29 AM I Want to Go Down to The Sea by Tom Reid https://tomreid.bandcamp.com/track/i-want-to-go-down-to-the-sea-alzheimers-song |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GUEST,Karen Impola Date: 07 Mar 24 - 07:40 AM Minneapolis duo Curtis and Loretta have a song called "Gone Forever" that's discussed (along with lyrics, if you scroll down a bit) elsewhere on this site: https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10135 |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: cnd Date: 07 Mar 24 - 08:39 AM There was an older gentleman who sang with his wife; about six-to-eight months ago, he posted probably a dozen or so songs of his to the Mudcat in different individual threads. If memory serves me right, one of them was on dementia, but I cannot for the life of me find it. I'll try looking again later. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: cnd Date: 07 Mar 24 - 08:44 AM ... I should have given up sooner, apparently. It was Alzheimer's, not dementia, but see: https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=172778 |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: Bat Goddess Date: 07 Mar 24 - 09:23 AM How We Die by Sherwin B. Ireland is an absolutely fascinating book. It had been part(unread) of my personal library of books about gravestones, gravestone carvers, funerary art, funerary tradtions...everything pertaining to death and how we deal with it. I finally read it about five years ago and I highly recommend it. My particular area of interest in gravestone matters is New England slate gravestones between 1650-ish and 1825-ish. (Most willows and urns make my eyes glaze over.) And the carver John Just Geyer (son of carver Henry Christian Geyer). Also typographical ligatures on gravestones. But my interest is broad and wide-ranging. A beautiful novel pertaining to dementia I highly recommend is The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean. Insightful fiction about death include several by one of my favorite authors, Robert Hellenga — The Truth About Death and his last book Love, Death, and Rare Books. (And for music, you might want to read his Blues Lessons.) Linn (once known here in the distant past as The Thanitolithologist before choosing Bat Goddess as my nom de Mudcat) |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 07 Mar 24 - 07:39 PM Dearest Batty, Thank you for the book suggestions. I will purchase your first tonight. BTW ... Your declutter utterings may begin to unclog my log-jam. G.W. - S.A. - SVDP. - RM - all perform transformations. Sincerely, Gargoyle I am reading "How We" for the fourth time ... previously highlighted, then annotated margins with personal names I know ... curiously, I cannot get beyond, nor gone beyond, page 202 and the chimney sweeps. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: Tattie Bogle Date: 08 Mar 24 - 07:49 PM There was a parody of “Yesterday” (Beatles song) which Dave Bryant used to sing (I think he wrote the lyrics.) It’s somewhere on this site, but Search not working at present. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GUEST,henryp Date: 09 Mar 24 - 06:48 AM Dear keberoxu, thank you for your message. I have enormous respect for you - and everyone who has to care for a loved one with dementia. It demands infinite patience, but can be thankless and frustrating, and even infuriating. I hope that you have all the support from family and friends that you need. Best wishes from Henry |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: Georgiansilver Date: 09 Mar 24 - 07:57 AM If someone would like to put a tune to this, they are welcome........ Disorientated They took me from my home and now I’m in a big chateau? They said I have dementia, what’s that? I just don’t know. I don’t know what dementia is or what effect it’s had, And now I’m stuck here in this place and feeling very sad. People ask me where I was born, where I lived, what’s my name? Some have asked me several times, like it’s a sort of game! Why am I here, in this place, living in someones’ room? Some old guy, told me I’d be here, till they stick me in my tomb! I just can’t understand it all, family and friends all left, No real friends within the place, I’m feeling quite bereft. Who are the ladies in uniform, are they nurses or what? What the heck am I doing here?…. I forgot! I did try asking people, what’s happening to me here? But there’s not one who seems to know, It’s so unclear. Who are all these people….. at breakfast, dinner and tea? I don’t know any of them, but seems they all know me. Michael.J.Hill. March 2020. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: Donuel Date: 17 Mar 24 - 10:21 AM The current hit musical 'The Notebook' is about romance and dementia. An old film 'On Golden Pond; comes to mind. Billy Connoly did a film about a retirement home for former Opera stars. The entire concept of memory being central to life is poignant and mysterious. Music seems to heroically hold out against the storm of dementia. Even instinctive memory is subject to loss in many different forms of dementia. Robin Williams fought off the onslaught of memory loss with suicide. The other day I remembered a particular dream scenario for the first time in a decade. How? Why? Some reductionist scientists claim the hypothalamus is fundamental to memory but it seems much more holographically stored throughout our brain. Not to be rude but for a few there never was a cure for stupid at any age. No one dies healthy but losing one's memory seems like a double death. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GUEST,PHJim Date: 17 Mar 24 - 11:38 AM "Dad Worked Hard" by Racael Kilgour Dad Worked Hard |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: oldhippie Date: 17 Mar 24 - 07:24 PM The Remember Song - Tom Rush |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GUEST,Speciality Ken Date: 18 Mar 24 - 06:02 AM Have a listen to Pete Ivatts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOEsej6ZY24 He's 'Seven Years Old' once again. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: Doug Chadwick Date: 18 Mar 24 - 06:36 AM There was a parody of “Yesterday” (Beatles song) which Dave Bryant used to sing (I think he wrote the lyrics.) It’s somewhere on this site, but Search not working at present. Subject: ADD: Yesterday parody (Dave Bryant) From: Dave Bryant - PM Date: 21 Sep 02 - 12:09 PM You're a glutton for punishment Joe: Yesterday - seemed like it was Wed-nes-day, But as today is Saturday, It must have been Friday - Yesterday. Suddenly - there's no entry in my di-ar-y, For the Thursday or the Fri-i-day, This Saturday came suddenly. Where two days could go, I don't know, I couldn't say, I remember - bugger-all since yesterday Which seemed like... Wednesday - still there's nothing else to say, At least I don't think so anyway, Today was tomorrow - yesterday. DC |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: GUEST,PHJim Date: 18 Mar 24 - 09:29 AM oldhippie suggested "The Remember Song" and credited it to Tom Rush. Tom did do a cover of this song, but he got it from Steven Walters, who wrote it. I don't think of this as being a song about dementia, rather one about forgetfulness. I sang this song at the 2004 Shelter Valley Folk Festival and the MC, who knew me well, said, "That song sounds just like Jim, but I KNOW he doesn't own an organiser." |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Songs about dementia From: John MacKenzie Date: 18 Mar 24 - 10:06 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uHmSKN9aE0 |
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