My Mother’s Favourite Love Songs

Here are some of my mother’s favourite love songs. When I was a kid playing in the sand pit, I would hear her singing in the kitchen. Sometimes it would be old numbers, and other times it would be hymns. I never heard her sing a whole song from beginning to end, but it was as if she just sang bits here and there that she remembered.

Don’t sit under the apple tree

I heard this number on the radio this week, and it brought back the memories. “Don’t walk down lover’s lane with anyone else but me.” I guess it was an old war time song.

As time goes by

I heard it from my early childhood. “A case of do or die.” I thought it was something to do with the Second World War.

South of the border

“South of the border, down Mexico way, that’s where I fell in love, when the stars above, came out to play.” That is good song writing. I have never seen the stars play, but that fits the mood of the festive time when you fall in love.

Five minutes more

I heard this song on the radio for the first time a couple of years ago, but I remember her singing it when I was little.

Isle of Capri

I sang this song a bit as a teenager because I had heard her sing it. I have never been to the Isle of Capri, but I like the pictures I have seen on the net.

Red River Valley

I must have heard her sing this song, because I couldn’t have heard it anywhere else.

Springtime in the Rockies

Here is another song I heard her sing, and I remember as a teenager singing this song in Africa, and dreaming of one day being in the Rockies.

Old cowhand from the Rio Grand

I remember her singing this one line of the song: “I’m an old cowhand, from the Rio Grand.”

Just the way you look tonight

I notice that a lot of these songs are sung by Frank Sinatra, and I guess he was a big hit in my mother’s youth.

One of My Mother’s favourite love songs

When I was young I remember her hugging me and singing: “I can’t give you anything but love, baby.”

Have I told you lately that I love you?

I forgot to put this song on, so I am adding it at the bottom. This is Elvis’ version, but I am sure she heard it from someone else.

Letter edged in black

I used to sing this song from a Jim Reeves recording that I heard, and I remember her telling me it was an old song that she had heard before.

Dancing cheek to cheek

I heard this song on the radio today (July 23. 2011), and it reminded me of my Mother singing this song, so I feel I must add it in here. It was was on the Saturday Sinatra show on am 740 from Toronto. It brings back all those favourite memories from childhood.

Oh Happy Day

My mother ‘got religion’ when I was young, so I heard her sing many old hymns too. I associate this song with her baptism in a fish pond next to a petrol station on Rhodesville Avenue in Salisbury.

Lily of the valley

This was one of her favorite hymns when I was little, and also became one of my favourites. There was another hymn she used to sing, but I can’t find it on the net. It went like this: “I tried the broken cisterns Lord, but ah, the waters failed. Even as I stooped to drink they fled, and mocked me as I wailed. Now none but Christ can satisfy, none other name for me. ‘Tis life, and love, and lasting joy, Lord Jesus found in Thee.”

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