In Memory Of Bill

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Here is another earlier tune I wrote. I can't remember my exact age, it must have been 13-14 years old. I still hold the original draft on small yellow note paper. I revised the original lyric when I was around 23 years old.

The song is about my Cousin Bill, whom I've never met. Bill passed away from cancer when he was 23 years old.

My Mom and Cousin Vicki often talked of Bill, and how they played and sang together.

I also heard how Bill was in the Merchant Marine at Fort Schuyler. Although he didn't graduate with his class because he was ill from the chemotherapy, Bill did manage to Graduate.

Cousin Bill got to sail out to sea for 1 year piloting ships.

These were the things I heard.

This is all I knew.

I hope you enjoy my homage to the cousin I admire and never knew.