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"The Man Who Killed My Daddy"


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This is my DH as an infant with his mother and father. His Father was killed in the Battle of Anzio and his Mother received the telegram about his death on Mother's Day in 1944. My DH is a musician and these are the lyrics to a song he wrote for his Father. The picture on the bottom left is my DH's electric guitar with his Father's violin. On the album, the beginning and end of the song are an actual recording from 1938 of his Father singing "Long Long Ago". How many voices have been silenced through war?

 

Lyrics of "The Man Who Killed My Daddy" by Bugs Henderson:

 

Mother's Day in '44,

The telegram arrived

Your husband is not coming home

The Captain gave his life

No angels showed up that day

No angels brought the news

Not the day the music died

And came back as the Blues.

 

Just a fool on some hill

In another time and place

Wouldn’t know him if I

passed him on the street

Wouldn’t recognize his face

He was taught to take life

Just like my father was

The good and evil universe

Each fighting for their cause

 

The man who killed my Daddy

Is he out there still?

Did it even get to him?

Did he have his fill?

The man who killed my Daddy

Suppose he had a son

And when I play so far away

Is he out there having fun?

 

And so I write a song too late

Too late it all sinks in

Black and white all turns gray

Thinking back to when

The man who killed my Daddy

Was just doin’ his part

For history and homeland

And the Captain’s Purple Heart.

 

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CC is welcome & wanted. This is an emotional and special LO for our family. I want it to be the best it can be.

From the album:

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This gives me goose bumps! Your LO is beautiful with so heart felt! Wonderful journaling and LO as a whole. God Bless all families today and always who do such a unselfish duty for their country!

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Wow, Patty Anne, this is gorgeous and truly an emotional LO. I can see it in the way you have laid everything out and I can feel it in your words that you have written for us and the lyrics your DH wrote. How wonderful that you have this photo of your DH and his Dad. Based on the dates, it sounds like it may be one of only few ever taken. You have given your family a wonderful gift in this LO. Thanks for sharing of yourself.

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oh Pattyanne.. I am crying as I finished reading this, what a most beautiful layout you have created here. Your dh sounds like a wonderful man and I believe, is a wonderful son, even tho' his father has passed. this is magnificent and I hope it brings your family some peace.

 

God bless

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Wow Patty Anne. WOW. This is so touching, so sad, but so heartwarming. I think adding the lyrics- just put it over the top. Its a beautiful layout, and I'm not sure you are going to get any CC. Its just so perfect.

 

One last thing, and I think Erica would agree- where is the K for Kleenex warning that we discussed on Saturday? ;)

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This is an amazing layout, Patty Anne. You've done a terrific and memorable job commemorating, not only your father in law, but all the men and women who have given their lives for all of us.

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PattyAnne, no cc, just soo beautiful and touching! Wonderful lyrics and I love everything here!

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A touching and very fitting Layout, given this time of remembrance!.

 

I like how you have the "feel" of the period, and I think the use of the typewriter font for the lyrics really adds to the atmosphere within this piece.

 

Wonderful work. I hope it is appreciated with as much love as it was made!

 

Thanks for sharing!

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Ummmm..I don't even know what to say. I am touched and the layout is beautiful. I can tell you put alot of special effort into it..the song is perfect, as is the picture of their instruments together.

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