Silver Threads and Golden Needles

Silver Threads and Golden Needles - Tracy Wells

I read a note my grandma wrote back in nineteen twenty-three

Grandpa kept it in his coat and he showed it once to me He said

"Boy you might not understand but a long long time ago

Grandma's daddy didn't like me none but I loved your Grandma so "

We had this crazy plan to meet and run away together

Get married in the first town we came to and live forever

But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet instead of her

I found this letter and this is what it said:

If you get there before I do don't give up on me

I'll meet you when my chores are through;

I don't know how long I'll be

But I'm not gonna let you down darling wait and see

And between now and then till I see you again

I'll be loving you Love me

I read those words just hours before my Grandma passed away

In the doorway of a church where me and Grandpa stopped to pray

I know I'd never seen him cry in all my fifteen years;

But as he said these words to her his eyes filled up with tears

If you get there before I do don't give up on me

I'll meet you when my chores are through;

I don't know how long I'll be

But I'm not gonna let you down darling wait and see

And between now and then till I see you again

I'll be loving you Love me

Between now and then till I see you again

I'll be loving you Love me