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Read Me a Memory

Music & Lyrics by Jay Richard

Sung by Gail H. Johnsen

      Lyrics

About the Song

Commissioned by Bill and Sally Grenney for Adams Elementary School

Read me a memory, tell me a tale.

Speak of wondrous adventures

together we'll sail off to forests enchanted

and lands far away.

Fairies and kings and magical rings.

My hearts has wings

when I sit at your knee and you read to me.

Years turn like pages, soon I'll be grown.

Maybe someday I'll read to a child of my own.

Though I may not remember the stories we shared.

I always knew, through time spent with you,

That you loved me too;

For I sat at your knee and you read to me.

Childhood, like summer days; dews on the grass,

Soon will be yesterdays.

Don't let it pass 'til you

Read me a memory, tell me a tale,

speak of wondrous adventures.

Together we'll sail off to forest enchanted and 

lands far away.

Fairies and kings, and magical rings. 

My heart has wings!

When I sit at your knee and you read to me.

© 2018 Gail H. Johnsen

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