I still remember When I first met you
It was so many years ago
In a small town Northwest Virginia
Where the laurel and dogwood grow
It was the last days Of November
The leaves you held were crimson gold
In the wind I still remember
The forest sensed you and no one told
I would chase you Down by the river
I'd sing your name out and go rushing in
Never knowing What danger lurked there
Never caring that I could not swim
My days with you Were always happy
Then my memory becomes unclear
It seems I lost you Not by the river
But when I finally learned to fear
I would stroll down Beneath the cottonwoods
Learning to walk in cadence with your rhyme
What joy to find Your simple rhythm
Has taken over and is guiding mine
I was only Just a boy then
By a stroke of luck I'm now a man
So much older Yet not wiser
Lord help me be a child again