I send to you my wishes for a wonderful birthday! This year your
birthday present is a song—"Laura's Lullaby!"
I hope that you savour this day and that you have great plans
for your next year! May the Good Lord bless you and keep you each
and every day of your life!
You never slept well during the first eight months of your life. Given that you was born in April, summer soon came and allowed for late evening "pushes" in the stroller. Up and back along the sidewalk that
was in front of the townhouse. Whatever sleep came from the fresh air
and the lull of the crickets was soon lost by the relocation from the stroller to your crib upstairs. Many evenings I found myself in the rocking chair that was in your bedroom—with you on my shoulder.
I remember thinking about all sorts of things while I rocked back and forth. Sometimes poems would come to me, sometimes stories. On one particular evening, the Music Muse came to me and gave me the idea for Laura's Lullaby.
The song was originally written on piano, then transposed to the guitar—or was it the other way around? Oh, well—it doesn't matter. The point is that it is difficult for me to play all the way through the song without making a mistake—lots of chords, don't you know! So—I am using a bit of modern technology to help me create what I envisioned in my mind so many years ago.
Unfortunately, this Web site limits me to uploading files no bigger than 5,000 Kb. What I am posting this evening is only a part of the entire composition, My apologies for that! And I still need to go back and do some additional work on this piece. When I am all done, I will post as much of the finished version as I can. Until then, please enjoy this version!
I am so very grateful that I savored each and every second of my time with you when you were young—even the sleepless nights!
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