<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">THANK YOU, Richard.<div><br></div><div>I have been listening to “Annie’s Song”, thinking to write words that celebrate being 80. Fragments of lyrics floating through my being. Then I wondered — did we write words to that tune?</div><div><br></div><div>I have a collection of about 600 songs — I may have gotten them from Larry Philbrook— and it is searchable by word or line — so I searched it and found no reference to the tune or the fragments I remembered.</div><div><br></div><div>I was about to go through the 20 songbooks recently uploaded , assuming the pdf’s are not word searchable — at least on my phone and iPad — looking for “Annie’s Song”</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks. You responded just in time …. Hey, wasn't there a song about that??<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Jim Wiegel</span><br><div>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“…the long work<br>
of turning their lives<br>
into a celebration<br>
is not easy. Come </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 19pt;">and let us talk</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 19pt;">“. </span></p><p class="p1"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 19pt;">The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver</span></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 9, 2025, at 11:24 PM, Richard and Maria Maguire via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><h1><a name="_Toc92759392"><span style="mso-bookmark:
_Toc74056147"><span style="mso-no-proof:yes">THOSE WHO CARE</span></span></a><span style="mso-no-proof:yes"></span></h1>
<br>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes">Tune: Annie's Song</span></i><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes"> </span><br>
We know we are chosen, to be those who care, <br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">To know our election, and be
those who dare.</span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes"> </span><br>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-no-proof:
yes">Refrain:</span></i><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">We cannot turn back now, our
future is clear</span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">To claim our election‑to be
those who care.</span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes"> </span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">To lay new foundations that
care for mankind. </span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">In building Fifth City, a new
social sign.</span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes"> </span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">A people of memories 60,000
years long. </span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">Telling the wonders, to the
land they belong.</span><br>
<p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-no-proof:
yes">Refrain</span></i></p>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">In the midst of the waters, a
people alive, </span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">Building a nation as the third
time arrives.</span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">Tomorrow's upon us, it's
urgent to share. . </span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">The call to all people, to be
those who care.</span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes"> </span><br>
<span style="mso-no-proof:yes">Refrain</span></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>