[Old School Hound]

Thank you very much for the kind words and song! You are right, I hear songs that Mom loved or from those artists that we saw together and it's a special feeling, you know? Mom loved Elton John but never got a chance to see him in concert. I love a lot of older music and I enjoy threads like these. Thank you again for the kind words and starting a great thread!

That's so interesting you say that. Elton has always been my favorite. I've seen him in concert more than any other artist.  I'll leave you with an Elton tune that I absolutely LOVE!  Very powerful lyrics. Always makes me reflect upon the life I've lived and the inevitable reality that my time will one day come "to leave upon the wind, never to return." In fact, I've already decided I want this song played at my celebration of life service when I pass from this world.  This one's for your mom as well ...


I used to know this old scarecrow
He was my song
My joy and sorrow
Cast alone between the furrows
Of a field no longer sown by anyone
I held a dandelion
That said the time had come
To leave upon the wind
Not to return
When summer burned the earth again

Oh
Oh
Cultivate the freshest flower
This garden ever grew
Beneath these branches
I once wrote
Such childish words for you
But that's okay
There's treasure children always seek to find
And just like us
You must have had
A once-a-upon-a-time