Summertime Again
Composed and Performed
by Bill Ward
at
Jackson's Funeral
February 4, 2023
🌟
You were the kid and I was the pro and you wanted to know all there was to know about lovin' out loud
You soaked it up and worked to craft
a song of life that's sure to last and it's filling us now
It's one good thing when you're born to sing
but to live to love is a whole other thing
and when you sang you loved us all, my friend
Standing tall and delivering rhymes you brought us all to summertime and because of you, it's summertime again
We never wrote a song together, my friend but I'm betting this one had a helping hand - least that's how it feels
You put yourself in your beautiful art we learned a lot from
your loving heart and that made it real
You left us in the middle of the snow but left us with a place to go to see you again
A sun filled lake with your smiling face a Fourth of July in a magic space with all your friends
A story teller and a story maker, a most authentic people
connector
Your story was your song each one pulled from a piece of yourself in a way that touches someone else even when you're gone
We're gathered here wondering why you had go without goodbye but the love you left here on this earth, we can't begin to count its worth
We'll see you in each summertime again
