I've told you before that we live in a town liberally populated with world-class musicians. Here's just another example.
When the World War Two Memorial opens in 2001 local performer Michael McCloud will perform a song he wrote for the event.
Members of Rolling Thunder, a national promotion company were vacationing in Key West and heard some of McCloud's original tunes at Schooner Wharf. The executives explained that they were promoting concerts to raise funds for the Memorial around the country in 5,000 seat venues using local musicians, introduced by celebrities. The song will wrap all the concerts. Tom Hanks will do the radio spots, and a superstar, whose name won't be announced yet will sing the song on each show.
We asked for a copy of the poignant lyric. In typical McCloud fashion he told us the first verse and chorus and claimed not to remember the last verse. Royalties will be donated to the Memorial fund. See if this doesn}y bring tears to your eyes:
My father tells me stories about heroes and glories Serving in the second world war How the young men were drafted and then soon thereafter Very few were young men anymore
My Father's companions who died in the canyons and oceans and fields overseas There we must leave them, we have nowhere to grieve them A Memorial is all that they need
Chorus: Where is the place to remember the faces and names of those heroes evermore Sailors and soldiers who never get any older Cause they died for their country in the second world war.