Try to Remember

The song has been around for an age and I have heard it numerous times.

But you know how it is… sometimes you see or hear something and it just hits you in a new way. Travel the same stretch of road, then one time you finally notice a breathtaking tree that had always been there… and perhaps from that point on, you will always make note of its presence.

This morning I heard an “old standard”… I knew the stage production where the song had come from… I didn’t realize that Jerry Ohrbach recorded it and that he was in the original Broadway cast… but that piece of information was a mere curiousity.

For some reason, this morning I concentrated on the lyrics… and it just hit me a little harder than I expected. Maybe it has to do with all this writing and reflecting I engage in… maybe it’s the time of the year, or better put the time in my years.

I share with you the lyrics… which I think stand alone quite well. But give yourself a treat… seek out a recording of it, too. You may want to give Ohrbach’s version a listen if you haven’t heard it… others who have recorded may have had better “pipes”; but I love the gentle emotion he brings to the words.

Try to remember the kind of September

When life was slow and oh so mellow

Try to remember the kind of September

When grass was green and grain yellow

Try to remember the kind of September

When you were a tender and callow fellow

Try to remember and if you remember

Then follow

 

Try to remember when life was so tender

That no one wept except the willow

Try to remember when life was so tender

That dreams were kept beside your pillow

Try to remember when life was so tender

That love was an ember about to billow

Try to remember and if you remember

Then follow

 

Deep in December it’s nice to remember

Although you know the snow will follow

Deep in December it’s nice to remember

Without a hurt the heart is hollow

Deep in December it’s nice to remember

The fire of September that made you mellow

Deep in December our hearts should remember

And follow…

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