[HANASHIR:11918] Re: Help for infant's funeral

[Scott Shuster <scott_shuster...>]

Hi Francine,

Please feel free to use my song and pass it along to whomever you wish.
 I've never recorded it, but you can probably interpret it yourself, as
a ballard in very slow 4/4 time.


Scott




--- Francine Berg <songberg (at) hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Dear Scott,  I just read the tender words of your song, and wanted to
> know 
> if I could pass this along to a woman who is in charge of a camp for 
> children called  "Healing Hearts".  this camp is sponsered by Hospice
> of 
> Central New York (Syracuse), and I am helping with the music
> component.  
> This might be read by the conselors, or maybe to the kids during  a
> healing 
> circle, and if I could learn the melody, I might be able to sing it. 
> Do you 
> have the music for this piece?  Please let me know at your
> convenience.  
> thank you very much.   Francine Berg
> 
> 
> >From: Scott Shuster <scott_shuster (at) yahoo(dot)com>
> >Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> >To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> >Subject: [HANASHIR:11916] Re: Help for infant's funeral
> >Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:17:40 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Hello Rabbi Schachet,
> >
> >I can understand your difficult position of trying to find the right
> >words to say at such a time.
> >
> >Below is a song I wrote over the course of several years which does
> >just that.  I've added verses to it as people in my life have passed
> >away.  At my mother's funeral I asked the Rabbi to recite because I
> >wasn't in any position to sing it myself.
> >
> >Please feel free to use it, or any piece of it.
> >
> >
> >Scott Shuster
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >                       "TENDER YEARS"
> >
> >                       Scott Shuster
> >
> >
> >          E                           G#-
> >When you have a lust for living, the cost is oh so high
> >           F#-                         A                 B7
> >When it's time to pay the price, when it's your turn to die
> >         E                                        G#-    B      C#-
> >It's so hard to say the right thing when all you can do is ask
> 'Why?'
> >            A                          F#-            B7
> >But you'll never get an answer as you look up in the sky
> >
> >
> >         E              A           E                 A
> >Take my hand, touch me here, be my friend, and be my dear
> >         G#-           F#-               B        B7
> >Feel my sorrow and together we'll share tears.
> >         E           A             E                     A
> >Lift me up, help me cope, give me strength, and give me hope
> >         F#-     G#-           A     B      E      Esus  E
> >Help me make it through these oh so tender years.
> >
> >
> >You may wish it never happened, and you'll probably deny
> >But you know that it's impossible to turn back the hands of time
> >We can learn from this experience so that he hasn't died in vain
> >As we focus on the future, and try to dull our pain
> >
> >(repeat chorus: "Take my hand...")
> >
> >She was much too young to leave us
> >But it took her anyway
> >'Cause it just doesn't discriminate on who or where it stays
> >She'll live on forever, in my heart she will remain
> >But I wish that she were next to me, alive and A.O.K.
> >
> >(repeat chorus: "Take my hand...")
> >
> >Life is oh so fragile, so for granted don't you take
> >As a little girl won't have the chance to make her own mistakes.
> >So cherish every moment, and teach them all you know
> >And give them all the values, to live and learn and grow.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >--- Rabbi Richard Schachet <lvrabbi (at) lvcm(dot)com> wrote:
> > > I just got a call from a member-  His daughter, who I knew but
> not
> > > well, had had a miscarriage at 20 weeks.  While she was in the
> throws
> > > of the miscarriage and before it actually happened, they called
> my
> > > and I went to the hospital and, of course, offered a misha
> berach.
> > >
> > > Yesterday the actual miscarriage occurred   I just received a
> call
> > > that they want a funeral.
> > >
> > > I've never had this situation... I know that normally, there
> should
> > > not even be a funeral and no shiva, but apparantly the young
> woman
> > > (Jewish)  and her Christian fiance' need some closure.  The
> eulogy
> > > was easy enough using King David's story-  but does anyone have
> any
> > > suggestions for readings, prayers, psalms etc.  Funeral is
> tomorrow
> > > afternoon (Monday) at 4:00 P.M. in the children's section of a
> local
> > > mortuary.
> > >
> > > HELP!!!!!!
> > >
> > >
> > > Rabbi  Richard Schachet
> > > Valley Outreach Synagogue
> > > www.valleyoutreach.com
> > >
> > > "The past has a vote, not a veto"
> > > Mordecai Kaplan, z'l
> > >
> >
> >
> >=====
> >
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