Here are some of my mother\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t sit under the apple tree <\/a><\/p>\n I heard this number on the radio this week, and it brought back the memories. \u201cDon\u2019t walk down lover\u2019s lane with anyone else but me.\u201d I guess it was an old war time song.<\/p>\n As time goes by <\/a><\/p>\n I heard it from my early childhood. \u201cA case of do or die.\u201d I thought it was something to do with the Second World War.<\/p>\n South of the border<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cSouth of the border, down Mexico way, that\u2019s where I fell in love, when the stars above, came out to play.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n Five minutes more <\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Isle of Capri <\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Red River Valley <\/a><\/p>\n I must have heard her sing this song, because I couldn\u2019t have heard it anywhere else.<\/p>\n Springtime in the Rockies <\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Old cowhand from the Rio Grand<\/a><\/p>\n I remember her singing this one line of the song: \u201cI\u2019m an old cowhand, from the Rio Grand.\u201d<\/p>\n Just the way you look tonight <\/a><\/p>\n I notice that a lot of these songs are sung by Frank Sinatra, and I guess he was a big hit in my mother\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n One of My Mother\u2019s favourite love songs <\/a><\/p>\n When I was young I remember her hugging me and singing: \u201cI can\u2019t give you anything but love, baby.\u201d<\/p>\n Have I told you lately that I love you?<\/a><\/p>\n I forgot to put this song on, so I am adding it at the bottom. This is Elvis\u2019 version, but I am sure she heard it from someone else.<\/p>\n Letter edged in black<\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Dancing cheek to cheek<\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Oh Happy Day<\/a><\/p>\n My mother \u2018got religion\u2019 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.<\/p>\n Lily of the valley<\/a><\/p>\n 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\u2019t find it on the net. It went like this: \u201cI 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. \u2018Tis life, and love, and lasting joy, Lord Jesus found in Thee.\u201d<\/p>\n I also have a Gospel web site<\/span>. If you want to check it out, go to:\u00a0 http:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are some of my mother\u2019s 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. … Continue reading