A Life With Background Music

"Waltz Across Texas With Me" Comes violining through my mind. I may be the only one in the world With background music of that kind. Ever since I was a little shaver The background music's been there But when I mention it to others They just raise an eyebrow and stare. It's not like I'm looking for it It just melodies in unbidden A secret source, a covert concert, The rhyme and the reason are hidden. Sometimes it was kind of funny From times now past and gone For in battle it was the William Tell Overture Exciting me, urging me on. The Colonel Bogey March And Richard Wagner's War Horses, The music always appropriate And I never wondered the sources. But mostly these days the music has changed And I'm hearing a lot of hymns. This old machine is getting older And I'm running on the rims. I thank God for the background music That lifts me above the herds. So if you hear a humming sound, Relax, I just forgot the words. by E. Marshall Evans