REMEMBERING

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2020

Melancholy Afternoon

This afternoon I was attending my youngest granddaughter's birthday celebration. 

It was a backyard affair and the sky was blue and perfectly clear. Other 

children were there and they were having fun running around and squealing with 

delight. The adults were all having a good laugh at something or other. 

But my mind was elsewhere. Thoughts of my recently deceased son Ricky wouldn't

leave my head. It put me in a melancholy mood.

Tonight I have chosen this song by the Stanley Brothers. 

I wandered again to my home in the mountains
Where in youth's early dawn I was happy and free
I looked for my friends but I never could find them
I found they were all rank strangers to me

Everybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger
No mother nor dad not a friend could I see
They knew not my name and I knew not their faces
I found they were all rank strangers to me, 
Rank strangers to me

They've all moved away said the voice of a stranger
To a beautiful home by the bright crystal sea
Some beautiful day I'll meet 'em in Heaven
Where no one will be a stranger to me

Everybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger
No mother or dad not a friend could I see
They knew not my name and I knew not their faces
I found they were all rank strangers to me, 
Rank strangers to me