12-1 Said: You Said It!

The things we said today.

Royal we, ha ha!

Talking to myself.

The Things We Said Today will be my 12-1 Said Advent poem.

But what does the song mean by today:

Then we will remember the things we said today?

Today could have been sixty years ago--

the day my closest childhood friend Victor said

The Things We Said Today is the Beatles's most beautiful song--

or the day (in fact) when I tried to learn that song on the mandolin

Key of A-

minor, starting with four strong A-minor da-da-Da chords

(I can kind of play them on my mandolin):

Da-da-You say you will love me
If I have to go.
You'll be thinking of me.
Somehow I will know.

Victor died thirty years ago.

And eventually the decisive shift to A-major:

Me, I'm just the lucky kind
Love to hear you say that love is luck--

luck of being alive to remember my dead friend--

Someday when we're dreaming
Deep in love not a lot to say
Then we will remember
The things we said today.





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