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Linda
Words & Music by Jack LawrenceRecorded by Buddy Clark, 1947
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When I go to sleep, I never count sheep.
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I count all the charms about Linda;
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And lately, it seems, in all of my dreams,
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I walk with my arms about Linda.
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But what good does it do me?
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For Linda doesn't know I ex - ist.
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Can't help feeling gloomy --
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Think of all the love that I've missed.
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We pass on the street, my heart skips a beat,
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I say to myself, "Hello, Linda."
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If only she'd smile and stop for a while,
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And then I would get to know Linda.
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But mir - a - cles still happen,
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And when my lucky star begins to shine,
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With one lucky break I'll make Lin - da mine.
Lee V. Eastman -- a British attorney, music publisher and art collector -- noted that all the members of his family had songs for their first names…all, that is, except his daughter, Linda. So Eastman commissioned a client of his, Jack Lawrence, to write the song in 1946. Crooner Buddy Clark recorded the tune in 1947. It became a hit -- so much of a hit, in fact, that it prompted a high percentage of post-war baby girls to be named Linda. Lee Eastman's daughter was later to have yet another claim to fame: she married a Beatle and became Mrs. Paul McCartney. Tragically, her life was cut short by cancer. This post is, in part, a minor token of memorial to a life well-lived.