Old songs - Meditative, Nostalgic, Calming

Old songs - Meditative, Nostalgic, Calming

My Rosary and Among my Souvenirs

Dr Abe V Rotor

On piano the notes are easy to play by schoolchildren, grown-ups and grand parents, too. On the violin, with or without piano accompaniment  the melody is plaintive, serene, with ascendant feeling of joy and reverence. Sing it and you will value it more.  The lyrics make a deep prayer. It's a favorite of great singers like Mario Lanza and Perry Como, and our own the late Diomedes Maturan.  Why don't you play My Rosary and/or Among My Souvenirs during invocation, either as background music, better still, as a song. Play these compositions on the computer or cell phone while relaxing, or before going to bed.

  

A rosary hangs by a rear mirror of a car, a popular religious practice.

 My Rosary: the Song and Prayer

The hours I spent with thee, dear heart

Or as a string of pearls to me

I count them over, every one apart
My rosary, my rosary

Each hour a pearl, each pearl a prayer

To still a heart in absence wrung

I tell each bead unto the end
And there a cross is hung

O memories that bless and burn

O barren gain and bitter loss

I kiss each bead and strive at last to learn

To kiss the cross, sweet heart
To kiss the cross. ~

Author, with his children, Anna and Matt play My Rosary and Among My Souvenirs

Among My Souvenirs 

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There's nothing left for me

Of days that used to be

They're just a memory among my souvenirs

Some letters sad and blue

A photograph or two

I see a rose from you among my souvenirs

A few more tokens rest within my treasure chest

And though they do their best to give me consolation

I count them all apart, and as the teardrops start

I find a broken heart among my souvenirs

I count them all apart, and as the teardrops start

I find a broken heart among my souvenirs

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Horatio Nicholls / Edgar Leslie

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