Are You Lonesome ?

I went to the nursing home to do some work today..to check that all of our patient profiles matched the drug charts...thus there I was sitting facing a wall in a little hub busily checking...I was oblivious to the activities that was around me concentrating on the task at hand since I got there at 1030am instead of 10am..so was making up for lost time...

then someone started singing...it was a female voice...in her 70-80? sounded very old..what moved me was that she sang Are you lonesome tonight ..she sang it slow..punctuating every word...I was wondering if she was missing her man...at that age I wonder if he was still around?

she kept on repeating the few lines that she knew over and over again..sitting there I felt like crying...she must miss him so...wonder if he knows that...

words & music by Roy Turk and Lou Handman)
Are you lonesome tonight,
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray to a brighter sunny day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?

I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
You know someone said that the world's a stage
And each must play a part.
Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart.
Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance
You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange
And why I'll never know.
Honey, you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you.
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than go on living without you.
Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you won't come back to me
Then make them bring the curtain down.

Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?

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