I can see in my mind's eye the cornflower blue album cover with a blonde middle-aged man holding his guitar. But memories are unreliable at best because they tend to be self-serving. I'm not sure if remembering Jud Strunk's album as cornflower blue is self-serving, but history proves if there's an opportunity for something to be self-serving, I don't usually turn it down.
It's a sweet song that made me cry every time I listened to it. Which was over and over. I must have enjoyed crying back then. The song is called, as you may have guessed, A Daisy A Day. Here, I'll show you what made my little eighth grade heart break. Over and over.
He remembers the first time he met her
He remembered the first thing she said
He remembered the first time he held her
And the night that she came to his bed
He remembers her sweet way of sayin'
Honey has something gone wrong
He remembered the fun and the teasin'
And the reason he wrote her this song
I'll give you a daisy a day, dear
I'll give you a daisy a day
I'll love you until the rivers run still
And the four winds we know blow away
They would walk down the street in the evening
And for years I would see them go by
And their love that was more than the clothes that they wore
Could be seen in the gleam in their eyes
As a kid they would take me for candy
And I'd love to go taggin' along
We'd hold hands while we walked the corner
And the old man would sing her this song
I'll give you a daisy a day, dear
I'll give you a daisy a day
I'll love you until the rivers run still
And the four winds we know blow away
Now he walks down the street in the evening
And he stops by the old candy store
And I somehow believe he's believin'
He's holdin' her hand like before
For he feels all her love walkin' with him
And he smiles at the things she might say
Then the old man walks up to the hill top
And gives her a daisy a day
I'll give you a daisy a day, dear
I'll give you a daisy a day
I'll love you until the rivers run still
And the four winds we know blow away
