Well, everyone is working or in bed, so I thought that I would say goodnight with two songs. One that remembers the moon venture, and the other that my mom used to sing to me.
First, The Sea of Tranquillity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B882w2gC22s
and now, My Darlin Nelly Gray on a player piano and the lyrics will follow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5g3kW0yXX0&feature=related
There's a lone green valley by the old Kentucky shore
Where we've whil'd many happy hours away;
A-sitting and a-singing by the little cottage door
Where dwelt my lovely Nelly Gray.
Oh! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away,
And I'll never see my darling any more;
I am sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day,
For you're gone from the old Kentucky shore.
When the moon had climb'd the mountain & the stars were shining too
Then I took my lovely Nelly Gray,
And I travell'd down the river in my little red canoe
While the banjo sweetly I did play.
Oh! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away,
And I'll never see my darling any more;
I am sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day,
For you're gone from the old Kentucky shore.
Oh! my eyes are getting blinded and I cannot see my way;
Hark! there's somebody knocking at the door.
I hear the angels calling and I see my Nelly Gray,
Farewell to my old Kentucky shore.
Oh! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away,
And I'll never see my darling any more;
I am sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day,
For you're gone from the old Kentucky shore.
I still play that on piano and it makes me cry.
Goodnight, world.
From Letty with love and a tear
