songs

When I go home to Aylmer, I normally walk into an empty house. Mom and dad are at work and my brother and sister are still in school. Its normally a Friday afternoon and I normally come home from Hamilton with S. there are two things I usually settle in with. I’ll set my bags in what once was my room, enter my mom’s room and get my mail and then turn the radio on in the lliving room and open the bills, checks, and personal mail that have been sent to Aylmer since the last time I was home.

Lately, I’ve gone into my mom’s cd collection and found my two favourite albums of hers: Women of Country and the Best of Dolly Parton. How can I be bitter or upset when either of those two start playing? There was a time when I found a great deal of comfort in the songs. Now, I just love the words and messages that belt out of these great artists mouths.

I fell in love with an artist named Skeeter Davis. The chorus is repeated so often, you start believing the words.

Ah-uh, um um,
Gonna get along without you now
Got along without you before I met you
Gonna get along without you now

Although she also sings The End of the World and it too relates how I felt way back when. She’s so cute and juvenile sounding its impossible not to love this song.

Why does the sun go on shinning
Why does the sea rush to shore?
Don’t they know?
It’s the end of the world,
Cause you don’t love me anymore.

Why do the birds go on singing?
Why do the stars glow above?
Don’t they know?
It’s the end of the world
It ended when I lost your love.

I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything is the same as it was
I can’t understand
No I can’t understand the way life goes on the way it does

Why does my heart go on beating?
Why do these eyes of mine cry?
Don’t they know?
It’s the end of the world,
It ended when you said good-bye.

I could go on with songs from Women of country, but then there is Dolly’s album that is heaven in a cd. Songs such as Coat of Many Colours, When I sing for him, The bargain store and Lonely Comin’ Down that make it impossible to be upset or emotional and the joy of her voice eases every pain.

I woke up this morning in a strange dream.
I looked into the mirror and a strange thing.
Then I looked for you, but you could not be found.
Then I felt the lonely coming down.

I walked across the railroad to the edge of the train
Saw the imprint on the pillow where you laid your head
The presence of you still lingers all around
Once again I felt the lonely coming down

Then I felt the lonely drifting down my face
As I realized no one could take your place
I wondered where the love had gone
That you and me had known
Then again I felt the lonely coming down

I wondered where the love had gone
That you and me had known
And again I felt the lonely coming down

I could go on for a lot longer addressing my favourite songs.