Story behind the song
She wishes she died
Lyrics
How Well I Remember
© Mae Tennisco 2006
1.)
My sister Katie wrote me a letter after
too many years out of touch
Joined at the elbow when we were children
sharing laughter, our secrets and trust.
I near lost my treasure to the old thresher, when she
slipped and it nearly dragged her in.
Daddy came running, stopped the machinery, and
saved her from the granary bin.
Chorus)
How Well I Remember our lives as children:
the two of us, laughing and free.
To look at her face was to look in the mirror and
smile at the smile smiling back at me.
2.)
She wrote--
Dearest brother, How Well I Remember, all the
fun we had on the farm,
Dipping the chickens in sour milk barrels,
climbing high to the lofts in the barn.
You tried to pat young Daisy's newborn,
Sent you flying when she caught you with her horn
You were ‘bout eight when you started up the tractor,
But lost control and ruined the corn.
Chorus
How Well I Remember our lives as children:
the two of us laughing and free.
To look at your face was to look in the mirror and
smile at the smile smiling back at me.
3.)
Dearest brother. I hope you're happy on the
farm with the kids and your wife.
Life in the city is not very pretty.
Takes a lot I ain't got to keep alive.
I'm in so deep, unable to sleep; being
shredded in the rag magazines
I'm often wishing, I swear to Heaven, that
Daddy hadn't heard me scream.
Chorus
How Well I Remember our lives as children:
the two of us laughing and free.
Now I can't stand to look in the mirror and
face the face staring back at me.
