And when I’ve been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
And when I’ve been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.
Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.
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