Oh man, this is totally the best.  My Mom loved this song.

Oh! And this, which I knew the original with Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, but this one also has Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson!

I love this one.  My Mom used to play this on 45 all the time, and sing the chorus.  She really liked it, maybe because her mom is Italian.  I had forgotten about it until about 6 or 7 years ago, when thanks to the internet I found it again.

It’s only as an adult that I realize how much music played a part of my childhood, particularly the music my mother listened to. It stays with you, the songs you learn as a wee one. I remember, about 2 years ago one of my nieces got an MP3 player, and had a Beach Boys song on it.

This flabbergasted my mother, who asked “why does she have THAT on there?”, to which my sister replied, “She likes that song because *I* like that song!” It brought to mind all the many songs I love today because my mom loved them and played them at home.

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