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Up next, a story on a family tradition. Or rather, a family talent for Maureen Elwyn. Maureen is a writing student of our regular contributor, Leslie Leyland Fields. Let's get into the story. Take it away, Maureen.
His trembling voice shattered the stillness of the room like a baby's cry at night. Play it again, busses. Only this time, sing it with me. I started the hymn again. my fingers trembling as the keys of the tiny chord organ came to life.
Tentatively reaching the chorus. I began to sing the familiar words. And he walks with me. Any talks with me?
Softly at first, My grandfather joined his voice with mine. in simple, sweet harmony. gaining strength and volume with each new note and word he sang. I could hardly believe my 16-year-old ears. My maternal grandfather was already an old man when I was born.
His body ravaged by years of Parkinson's disease. He could no longer hold a fork or a cup. He ate with a spoon and sipped his coffee through a glass straw. Having grown frustrated with his dentures after a dentist pulled all of his teeth, he opted instead to remain toothless. gumming bread and butter, cereal, and soft foods for most of his meals.
I call this gentle soul Daddy Dee. And he call me busses. His special name for the little girl kisses he loved. My mother had often told me that during her schoolgirl years. She, my aunt, and my grandfather would stand on the courthouse street corner on Saturday night, serenading shoppers who came to town to purchase groceries and supplies for the coming week.
With perfect pitch, And the ability to sing flawless tenor to a song after hearing it only once? He'd been offered a spot in a traveling opera company. But he chose to stay at home. and enjoy the simple life of husband, Father? and eventually grandfather.
Uh By the time I was born. He conquered a long-time battle with alcoholism. But the constant shaking of his hands Coupled with the damage wreaked on his mouth and throat by the lack of teeth, left him unable and unwilling to sing. Tears stinging my eyes and a lump forming in my throat. I stumble through the rest of the remaining hymns chorus.
Lost in song. He didn't notice my sudden loss of composure. When we finished the final chorus, I dropped my hands to my lap. Afraid to look around. The sound of the glass straw tinkling against the coffee cup signaled the end of our spontaneous duet.
and it offered me the opportunity to escape from the room. Retreating to my bedroom, I quickly closed the door for a much needed moment of privacy. Throwing myself on the bed and contemplating the enormity of the moment I had just unwittingly experienced. Daddy Lee lived three hundred and fifty miles away. and he seldom visited us.
Yet here we were, joining our voices in song. Me? an awkward teenager. with my whole life ahead of me. And he An aging man stooped and stunned by the hard knocks on the road of life.
Yeah. Sadly, it would be the first and last time. I would hear my grandfather sing. That evening, after I had tearfully told my mother about the unexpected vocalizing. I learned that although he had never heard his father sing, Daddy Dee had inherited the Elder's gift of music.
A favoured performer at local dances, Thomas Edgerton had been accosted by a group of hooded men as he walked home on a moonlight Saturday night. Intending to merely scare the musician and rough him up a bit. One accuser lectured my great-grandfather at length. On the frivolity of a married man spending his weekends entertaining others. A second man spat in his face.
and warned him of the consequences of singing in a band with a black man. In a fit of anger, my great-grandfather ripped the hood from his accuser's head. His identity revealed the man fired a single shot. Two days later. The family buried Thomas.
in an unlarked pauper's grave. his melodious voice Forever silenced. Mulling over my mother's words and remembering the trembling yet beautiful, tenored voice of my grandfather. I suddenly realized That although a vile, senseless act had snuffed out the life of my great-grandfather, It could never extinguish my grandfather's joy for singing. The memory of that momentary afternoon's duet with Daddy D.
is one I will always treasure. But more importantly, the gift that he passed on to me and the four generations which have followed him, Bless a lifetime. It was he who showed my family through example. the absolute joy of bursting into song. whether for an audience or simply for ourselves.
It was He who communicated to us. That the human voice is the perfect instrument for evoking memories or releasing our emotions. And it was He who revealed to us that although singing is as simple as breathing. The very act itself has the power to alter our moods. The Edgerton's blood and the sound of music run deep through my veins.
A constant reminder of my past. My present and my future. And with a legacy like that, I ask? How can I keep from singing? Maureen Elwyn's story here.
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