Salute Her When Her Birthday Comes - April 22

 

Karen on Mother's Day 2011

I will be busy tomorrow morning, so I thought I would post this today.  April 22 would have been Karen's 66th birthday.  It will be sad since we will be apart for the first time on her special day.  I am dedicating a Bob Dylan song to her, She Belongs to Me which first appeared on his Bringing It All Back Home album in 1965.  I am featuring a cover by Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band seen on the Mike Douglas show in 1969.

She’s got everything she needs
She’s an artist, she don’t look back
She’s got everything she needs
She’s an artist, she don’t look back
She can take the dark out of the nighttime
And paint the daytime black

You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees
But you will wind up peeking through her keyhole
Down upon your knees

She never stumbles
She’s got no place to fall
She never stumbles
She’s got no place to fall
She’s nobody’s child
The Law can’t touch her at all

She wears an Egyptian ring
That sparkles before she speaks
She wears an Egyptian ring
That sparkles before she speaks
She’s a hypnotist collector
You are a walking antique

Bow down to her on Sunday
Salute her when her birthday comes
  For Halloween give her a trumpet
And for Christmas, buy her a drum