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Story behind the song
After WWI my grandmother was sent from Italy to marry a man in the US she had never met. When she got here, and saw him, she refused. They told her she'd either have to be married or she'd be returned to Italy.
During the argument, she made eye contact with a man, pointed at him and said, "That is the man I want to marry. “
As it turned out one of the people in the household where she was staying knew the man and brought him in to meet her.
That was my grandfather. They were married until he died in 1959.
She spent the next 20 years missing him. It was the definition of love at first sight.
Lyrics
1919
2022 Phil Berbig
The whole world started changing, it was 1919
The greatest of wars was fading along with the fates of kings and queens
A pretty young woman boarded a boat meant to take her across the sea
And her whole world started changing in 1919
A man was waiting somewhere in a land she’d never known
She was sent to make him a wife and to make this land her own
She stepped off the boat and looked at his face as she saw him for the very first time
But there was no love in this man when she looked into his eyes
Chorus:
And some things never can change
Love can never be explained
Some people search their whole life and some find it fast
But the lucky ones are the ones who find a love strong enough to last
She said she would not marry him, they said you must go home
A foreign woman in America just can’t be here alone
She cried and turned and caught the eye of a man and they fell in love
The kind of love that old time poets, sometimes write of
My Gandpa died in ’59, the year that I was born
Grandma told us stories of the man that she adored
In that one moment they both fell in love and nothing ever came between
Their whole world had changed that day in 1919
