Name: To My Granddaughter
Duration: 2 min 49 s
Channel: Wally Jirgens & Dennis Hock
Description: License options are available for this song. A poem by Dennis Hock put to music

To My Granddaughter

Wally Jirgens

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A poem by Dennis Hock put to music

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Wally Jirgens

I play mostly alone but also play with bands we form for special concerts

Since I retired in 1996 I took up writing, playing and recording music as a hobby. I play piano, guitar, bass, drums, harmonica and tenor sax reasonably well but not great. I enjoy all genres of music.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Folk Rock

Charts

Peak #317

Peak in subgenre #20

Author

Wally Jirgens & Dennis Hock

Rights

wljirgens enterprises

Uploaded

October 10, 2007

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MP3

MP3 2.6 MB • 128 kbps • 2:49

Story behind the song

When i first read Dennis Hock's "The Secret Cup", his first published collection of poems, I was very moved by all of the poems, but was repeatedly drawn back to "To My Granddaughter (on her 7th birthday)", and then requested his permission to put this poem to music.

Lyrics

Let me whisper you a secret:

when sun sinks into ocean at end of day
it doesn't sizzle
because during its course across the sky
it has spent all its heat on you and other flowers
and now is but glow without fire.

And here, a second secret:

all night long the sun travels under the earth
from west to east,
eating from rich veins of golden ore
until it has gorged itself with new heat,
then rises again to spill
its warmth across your waking face.

And I look upon your sleepy smile
and feel like a shy and grateful Egyptian.

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