Try to remember...

[javasaurus]

Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh, so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a tender and callow fellow.
Try to remember, and if you remember,
Then follow.

Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow, follow, follow, follow.

Try to remember when life was so tender
That no one wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
That love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember, and if you remember,
Then follow.

Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow, follow, follow, follow.

Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow, follow, follow, follow.

Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow, follow, follow, follow.

Deep in December, it's nice to remember,
Although you know the snow will follow.
Deep in December, it's nice to remember,
Without a hurt the heart is hollow.
Deep in December, it's nice to remember,
The fire of September that made us mellow.
Deep in December, our hearts should remember
And follow.

(from The Fantasticks, lyrics by Tom Jones)

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[wilhelmina-d.livejournal.com]

{{{{{{{Java}}}}}}}}}

As an aside, my Dad was in the Fantastiks, many, many years ago. It was at the same theatre where almost the whole family was in the King & I. I played one of the princesses and had two lines. "Please do not go Mrs. Anna" and "I believe in snow". I still remember the night I forgot the snow line, but our Mrs. Anna just smoothed all over it. :)