Grandma's Song...

Today as I folded up my treasured quilt I inherited from my great~grandmother... stitched by her tender, loving hands oh so many years ago... my thoughts drifted off to this tiny little lady with the softest white hair that cascaded all the way down her back... my great~grandmother Sara lived to be not quite 100 years young... I am so blessed I was able to spend time with her as a little girl... a little girl who was old enough to value this precious time spent with one I loved so much... and still do... this tiniest of little ladies with her soft~spoken voice taught me so many things... about gardening and Nature, and so many of life's lessons I will never forget... I have a favorite song by Gail Davies called "Grandma's Song" ... written by Gail with tender memories of her own grandmother... which reminds me so much of my own grandma... I tried to find it on Playlist to add to my music, but it is not there... I have the cd, but do not know how to add my own music from there... so, I am posting the lyrics... along with some of my own photos that seemed to just fit perfectly with Gail's words... I hope you enjoy it... and perhaps your thoughts shall drift away to sweet memories of your own grandma too...

"All along the old back road,
The people stop to talk at her garden gate
While inside the family cried all through the night
Cause the old woman had passed away

I loved her so and though she was a special one
A lovely lady and a gentle old soul
And she taught me to sing an old folk song
It's got a melody of a hundred years ago

And she sang "A come a lou, come a lou, come a
hi~lo, come down the merry stream"
I'm remembering...

Those memories have given me so much
She wore her age so gracefully
And there was not a living thing that she did not love...

And I pray that there is a little of her in me...

Oklahoma in the Summertime
In her rocking chair she's a singing there on the porch
While the hounds a howling through the hot black night
And that ole fox well he's a running like he never
has done before...

When you hear the melody and when I play my song
Every note you hear from me she's singing right along...
And she sang "A come a lou, come a lou, come a hi~lo
Come down the merry stream"...
I'm remembering...

All along the old back road
People stop to talk at her garden gate
While inside the family cried all through the night
Did you hear that old Mrs. Whitten
has passed away today...

Come a lou, come a lou, come a hi~lo
Come down the merry stream
Come a ram, tam, tam and a dippy dippy dow
Hear the row, the bow wow wow
The bugle's horn, the big Fi~diddle and the hidey ho
Through the woods we're gonna roam boys
Through the woods we're gonna roam"...

I love you grandma and I miss you so much... xoxo... (here is a link to the beautiful song by Gail Davies on You~tube... her voice is so soft and beautiful, it will become a favorite of yours too... it is so worth listening to...)