This one always gets to me - no one will ever know or believe, I suppose, just how difficult it was to leave the first husband. One day I just had to accept that nothing would ever change. Like the blog title says: there's a country song for every occasion.
https://youtu.be/8QAa59bMDqQ
Monday, January 4, 2016
The Stardust Album - Willie Nelson
Who would have thought that my mother was a Willie Nelson fan, but this album had her in tears about 10 years after my Dad died. I was playing it one day and it was just too much for her.
https://youtu.be/2UI5czTa1tA
https://youtu.be/2UI5czTa1tA
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
This was always a wonderful song. For me, it is a song that was completely appropriate for both my second father-in-law and my mother. Neither one of them ever got over the death of their partners.
I remember sitting in the hospital beside my father-in-law at the end of his life, and I suddenly started to cry and cry. I couldn't figure out why and then realized that the man in the next bed had his radio on and it was playing this song. My father-in-law lived in Chicago and went once a week to his wife's grave by bus. She had been sick for so long before she died, and it hadn't been pleasant. He never got rid of anything in their apartment that was part of her. In fact, one of the key signs that there was something really wrong was when he couldn't remember how to get the cemetery anymore.
For my mother, this just works even though my father died in an industrial accident - her devastation was so deep that it still amazes me that she survived the next thirty-six years. The next post will be about the other song that explains so much.
https://youtu.be/jBeOddejiGw
I remember sitting in the hospital beside my father-in-law at the end of his life, and I suddenly started to cry and cry. I couldn't figure out why and then realized that the man in the next bed had his radio on and it was playing this song. My father-in-law lived in Chicago and went once a week to his wife's grave by bus. She had been sick for so long before she died, and it hadn't been pleasant. He never got rid of anything in their apartment that was part of her. In fact, one of the key signs that there was something really wrong was when he couldn't remember how to get the cemetery anymore.
For my mother, this just works even though my father died in an industrial accident - her devastation was so deep that it still amazes me that she survived the next thirty-six years. The next post will be about the other song that explains so much.
https://youtu.be/jBeOddejiGw
Tiger By The Tale - Buck Owens
I had to laugh when this came on The Roadhouse. All I could think was: "this must have been what my first husband thought". He loved Jim Reeves, something that he didn't share with too many people, but it was one of the reasons why he and my Dad got along so well.
Mind you, he probably should have paid a little more attention to the way my father dealt with "his tiger" :-). On the other hand, my Dad died way too soon - never even got to see the grandsons that he would have been ecstatic over.
https://youtu.be/jBeOddejiGw
Mind you, he probably should have paid a little more attention to the way my father dealt with "his tiger" :-). On the other hand, my Dad died way too soon - never even got to see the grandsons that he would have been ecstatic over.
https://youtu.be/jBeOddejiGw
Walking the Floor Over You - Ernest Tubbs
This was the first song that my mother ever heard at some function that my father took her to at the army base, I guess. Apparently, she was not impressed. She married him anyway!
Also explains why Dad took his girls to all the country and western shows instead of my Mom.
However, when Mom had "the Alzheimer's", it was funny to watch her joining in with everyone else to all the country songs from the 50s and 60s that she obviously knew from hanging around with my Dad - the Legion, all the Sunday music, Fred Kent and the Northernaires, Don Ramsey - the Dean of Country Music, and assorted others.
I'll figure out how to embed this later :-)
https://youtu.be/A-0KHkf5V98
Also explains why Dad took his girls to all the country and western shows instead of my Mom.
However, when Mom had "the Alzheimer's", it was funny to watch her joining in with everyone else to all the country songs from the 50s and 60s that she obviously knew from hanging around with my Dad - the Legion, all the Sunday music, Fred Kent and the Northernaires, Don Ramsey - the Dean of Country Music, and assorted others.
I'll figure out how to embed this later :-)
https://youtu.be/A-0KHkf5V98
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