OUR PATHS MAY SEVER, BUT I'LL REMEMBER FOREVER - DEEP IN MY HEART, DEAR

 

 

Deep in my heart, dear,
I have a dream of you,
Fashioned of starlight,
Perfume of roses and dew.

Our paths may sever,
But I'll remember forever,
Deep in my heart, dear,
I'll always dream of you.

I've waited a lifetime for someone to say,
The things you are saying to me.

And darling, I mean every word that I say,
Just look in my eyes and you'll see.

You smile and my tears have all melted away,
My worries were all false alarms.

With you every day is a beautiful day
As long as I'm here in your arms.

Deep in my heart, dear,
I have a dream of you.
Fashioned of starlight,
Perfume of roses and dew.

Our paths may sever,
But I'll remember forever.
Deep in my heart, dear,
I'll always dream of you.

 

*****

 

Cliff has been gone for 21 years,

 

And still, alone, 

 

I remember,

and

I sing our love songs -

 

For Cliff alone.

 

 

The Sheba

 

 

Deep In My Heart, Dear

The Student Prince

Sigmund Romberg

Dorothy Donnelly

Mario Lanza

ALL THE LOVE SONGS WERE WRITTEN FOR US

 

 

A very precious love,

Is what you are to me,

A stairway to a star,

A night in Shangrila of ecstacy;

 

Lanterns of gold, lanterns of blue,

Twinkle in the shadows

While I dance with you.

 

 

    I didn't dance with Cliff - But, Oh ! How we sang love songs !     http://cliffcartermrnostalgia.blogspot.com/2013/04/i-didnt-dance-with-cliff_27.html

 

 

Music - Sammy Fain

Lyrics -  Paul Francis Webster

1958

 

I MISS CLIFF NIGHT AND DAY

 

 

UNFINISHED DREAM

 

 

I would not dance with Cliff:

I felt awkward, while

Cliff was grace personified.

 

Now, so many years later,

All alone,

I close my eyes,

And, hearing

 The Blue Danube Waltz,

I see myself with Cliff,

In a bright Viennese ballroom,

 

Cliff, so fine in his tuxedo,

I, in an elegant, billowing gown;

We are dancing.

 

And I let the tears fall.

 

YOU ARE ALWAYS IN MY HEART, EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE FAR AWAY

 

 

You smile, the song begins,

You speak and I hear violins,

It's magic.

 

 

 

I miss you night and day.

 

 

CLIFF ATTENDED THE 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

 

1913

New York City

 

Cliff Carter was eleven years old

when he attended the celebration of

The 50th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.

 

There, Cliff saw

W.E.B. Dubois

and

Booker T. Washington.

 

 

W.E.B. DuBois and members of the New York State Commission on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1913
Creator: Cordes, Paul -- Photographer
Depicted: Date October 22-31, 1913

I DIDN'T DANCE WITH CLIFF

 

The Lawrence Welk show has been on the air for more than 50 years, but the music is still magnificent, heart warming - good for the health in these times full of noise and ugliness.

 

Can you remember seeing senior citizens dancing together to beautiful music? They did at that time. They did at the Lawrence Welk shows. After all these decades, we can still experience the beauty of the music and the joy of seeing people dancing together.

 

I didn't dance with Cliff - much to my regret. I felt awkward and he was such a beautiful dancer. A prize winning ballroom dancer. He even walked like a dancer. So I would tell him to dance with Alma Mia Petrides D'Allaire Kotsos, coat check lady at The Astor Lounge on St. Catherine Street West (across from the T. Eaton department store) where Cliff played the piano.

 

Alma had been a vaudeville performer and she was a graceful dancer. So I sat at my table and watched Cliff dance with Alma Mia. I sang with my beloved all the time - at work and at home, day and night, but I regret very much I did not have the confidence to dance with him.

 

It is hard for me to watch the Lawrence Welk show. The music tears at my heartstrings. The memories, still so vivid, come alive when I hear those songs. Cliff has been gone for twenty-one years now. Every love song was our love song. I remember the lyrics to almost every one of them. And I long for Cliff constantly. It seems I was in his arms only yesterday.