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Here's Karen on her father Jim. There are rare moments of happiness in a hospital, especially in the room of an 89-year-old man with dementia. But even there, once in a while, you are blessed with a golden memory that almost makes the experience worth it. I need to preface what happened by letting you in on a long-running family joke. When my sister and I were young, we'd always ask Dad what his favorite song was, even though we knew what the answer would be: the Kentucky Waltz.
He would always reply. My father grew up in southern Illinois near the Kentucky border. During the 1930s through the early 1950s, and his primary source of entertainment was the Grand Ole Opry on the radio. In the late 1950s, my father moved to northeastern Wisconsin and married my mother, but brought his love for country music with him.
So, for most of our young lives, we grew up listening to country music.
However, the Kentucky Waltz was never heard on any of the country music stations here. There's no such thing as the Kentucky Waltz. We'd tease him. You must be thinking of the Tennessee Waltz, and then all of us would start singing at the top of our lungs. I was waltzing with my darling to the Tennessee Waltz.
However, Dad kept insisting there was such a song as the Kentucky Waltz, but he couldn't remember the words or the melody. Since this was the early 1970s, before Google and the World Wide Web. Dad would ask various musicians, listen to country music radio stations, and look at every single song selection on jukeboxes, but never came across the Kentucky Waltz. Fast forward 45 years, both my sister and I had long forgotten about teasing Dad on the existence of this song. He had had a few mini strokes, and according to various scans and tests, his brain had shrunk.
We finally got him into an assisted living facility, but he couldn't understand why he was there, and fought with everyone almost the entire time. Since my sister and her family lived in Las Vegas, I was the closest living sibling, so I ended up being the person who was called when he was acting up. I didn't mind at the beginning, but it started to be four to five times a week. And I didn't want to resent my father for something he couldn't help, but I was beginning to.
However, after a few months of living there, his health declined to the point of him being in the hospital, and my sister flew in to be by his bedside.
Now, sitting next to my incoherent father, as he was babbling nonsense about people's names I didn't recognize. I had my nose buried deep into my cell phone, playing some game to distract me. On how heartbroken I was, sitting there listening to him, I did finally recognize a couple of the names he whispered of people he knew growing up in Southern Illinois. Though they were people I had never met and had long since passed away. At this particular moment, it was just Dad and me in the room.
My sister had left to take a break and get us some coffee downstairs. Out of nowhere, he started to sing. We were waltzing last night in Kentucky beneath the beautiful harvest moon. My head snapped to attention. I thought, what is he singing?
I never heard this song before. Suddenly, all those memories of car rides, which ended with us laughing at Dad about the song that didn't exist, came flooding into my brain. I grabbed my phone and went directly to YouTube. I entered the Kentucky Waltz in search. And there it was, staring me in the face—a video of the Osborne brothers singing the Kentucky Waltz.
I turned up the volume, and Dad's eyes became more focused and moist. He started singing at the top of his lungs, all the words to the song, right along with the music. He didn't miss one word after 60 years of not hearing it. My sister came through the door and asked, "What's going on?" I can hear Dad singing all the way down the hall. Wait, Dad's singing!
I quickly filled her in on what happened, and I immediately replayed the video, which, of course, Dad then started singing again. We both started to cry and laugh at the same time. Dad looked at both of us and said. Why are you guys laughing so hard? I told you this was my favorite song.
We had a great afternoon with him. He was able to hold a conversation. We laughed. We cried. We created the last happy memory I have of him.
He made somewhat of a turnaround and was able to be released to a memory center at a nursing home. Dad died three months later, but when I'm missing him or just feeling lonely for family, the gift of that song helps chase those sad feelings away. I've played the song so many times, I also now know all the words by heart and sing at the top of my lungs. We were waltzing last night in Kentucky. And you've been listening to Karen Cutler Drehter in her story about her father and a song.
And Karen is a listener at WHBY 1150 AM in Appleton, Wisconsin. Her story, her father's story, and the story of a song—one of our best so far here on our American stories. Lee Habib here again. Our American Stories tries to tell the stories of America's past and present to Americans, and we want to hear your stories too. There's some of our favorites.
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