Author: Jack Leitmeyer
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In My Family
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“That’s how it’s gonna be, in my familyFrom the biggest branch to the smallest leafStill you’re gonna see similarity…In my family, that’s how it’s gonna beFamily- It’s like any other familyBig and small- It’s like any other family” I’ve always been fascinated by genealogy. When I started researching my family…
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Hello Old Friend
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“An old man passed me on the street todayI thought I knew him but I couldn’t sayI stopped to think if I could place his frameWhen he tipped his hat I knew his nameHello old friend(Hello old friend)It’s really good to see you once againHello old friend(Hello old friend)Really good…
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Doctor, Doctor
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“Doctor, there’s something wrong with meMy health is not all that it used to beMy heart is out of beat, I got chokers on my feetMy eyesight’s getting dimmer, I can’t seeDoctor thanks for seeing me today, I’m gladI’ve got every sickness there is to be hadI had whooping cough…
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Let There Be Music
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“It’s so hard to keep on smillin’when people try to make you frownBut, we’re all in this togetherSo why run one another downYou know we can’t expect our problemsto grow wings and fly awaySo fight the fight just as hard as you canwhen it’s time for you to playLet there…
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We May Never Pass This Way Again
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“Life, so they say, is but a game and they’d let it slip away…Like Columbus in the olden days, we must gather all our courage.Sail our ships out on the open seas, cast away our fearsand all the years will come and go…We may never pass this way again”– Seals…
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We are the World
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“There comes a time when we heed a certain callWhen the world must come together as one…We are the world, we are the childrenWe are the ones who make a brighter daySo let’s start giving” In my position in Worldwide Product Safety with the Merck pharmaceutical company, I got to…
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Time Waits for No One
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“Yes, star crossed in pleasure the stream flows on byYes, as we’re sated in leisure, we watch it flyAnd time waits for no one, and it won’t wait for meAnd time waits for no one, and it won’t wait for meTime can tear down a building or destroy a woman’s…
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The Man in the Mirror
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“I’m gonna make a changeFor once in my lifeIt’s gonna feel real goodGonna make a differenceGonna make it rightAs I turn up the collar onMy favorite winter coatThis wind is blowin’ my mindI see the kids in the streetWith not enough to eatWho am I, to be blind pretending not…
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The Times, They Are A Changing
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“The line it is drawn, the curse it is castThe slowest now will later be fastAs the present now will later be pastThe order is rapidly fadin’And the first one now will later be last‘Cause the times, they are a-changin’” Bob Dylan (1963) My Grandpop Leitmeyer was born in 1900.…