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When we moved from South Georgia, one of my children said to me, "I miss the old ladies." The senior ladies always had times, plenty of sugary treats and the ability to put themselves over to the side to give someone else time to talk. Churches would die without them, and so would their families. Our idolatry is youth in this time. We dread aging, fight it, fear it, resist it, and see it as a burden. What a bizarre reversal of the way it should be....

That's why this song came along.

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The Rememberer
Gary Allison Furr, April 15, 2019

To a man in a hurry, she’s an old lady driver
a Lincoln Town car getting in his way.
Strangers look right through her In the rush to be somebody,
Assume she doesn’t have much to say/

But she’s the best friend of her Ladies class
She writes them cards when they’re sick
and remembers each of them in prayer
She keeps up with birthdays anniversaries and losses,
When a listening ear is needed, she is there,

CHORUS:
She’s the rememberer
Their stories and treasures she keeps,
Deep in her heart and her prayers
When she lies down to sleep

When she was a young girl, a young man paid attention and
saw the future in her deep blue eyes.
She raised babies safe from fear
Made decent people of them
And gave them confidence to try.

She set the dinner table as long as she was able
Went to graduations and ballgames
She kept all their memories in scrapbooks that she labeled
carefully with every person’s name.

CHORUS:
She’s the rememberer
Their stories and treasures she keeps,
Deep in her heart and her prayers
When she lies down to sleep

Now the people that she prayed for and the family that she lived for
have come back home to say farewell
They’ve forgotten names and faces
And unimportant places
but not the stories they came to retell.

Her heartrate is slowing, they all know the time is close,
But she smiles when she opens her eyes
Now it’s their turn to remember
And from this time forever
They’ll tell the stories they all memorized

CHORUS:
Now they’re the rememberers
Her stories and treasures they keep,
Deep in their hearts and their prayers
When she lies down to sleep

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from Flat Tire On Memory Lane, released January 28, 2021
Words and music by Gary Allison Furr
Gary Allison Furr--vocals, guitar, bass, dobro

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Gary Allison Furr Birmingham, Alabama

Dr. Gary Allison Furr has been playing, writing and singing music his whole life. A veteran of lots of bands of the years, he performed with Shades Mountain Air, a Birmingham acoustic-bluegrass band for twenty years .

He has played as both solo artist and with the band at a variety of venues, including colleges and universities, conferences, churches, coffee houses and festivals. ... more

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