Back in about 1990, I was visiting an elderly lady who was in Hospice. I was a Hospice Chaplain at that time. She lived about twenty miles north of Green Bay, Wisconsin, in a little village called Dykesville. She was dying of cancer. As we sat in her living room overlooking the Bay of Green Bay, I asked her where she grew up. She replied, “Indiana.”
Noticing an old upright piano across the room, I said, “Let me sing you a song you probably haven’t heard for some time,” and I sat down, chorded and sang “Back Home Again in Indiana.” When I finished, her face brightened up while the tears ran down her face. She said, “That’s my favorite song since I was a child.”
I will never forget how happy that song made her feel. The song ends “When I dream about the moonlight on the Wabash, how I long for my Indiana home.” May she rest in peace!
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