I don't understand you,
all I know is that I love you
and that's a start.
If I can't have you,
and if I can't hold you in the dark . . .
You will always be Rose of Sharon to me
somewhere in your memory, save a kind word for me.
~ Jeff Hart, Rose of Sharon
I strongly suspect Jeff didn't write it for the flowering shrub, but it's a beautiful song, and it's lovely to see the Rose of Sharon blooming, not just in my yard but in others' yards too this time of year. I don't know who planted mine as it was here long before me, but I thank them.
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I should like to hear that song. Every time I hear about a Rose of Sharon I think about the character from The Grapes of Wrath.
wonderful pic, bull pen. thanks for the mention.
zack, i may try to put an mp3 of that song on my myspace page. edit: (consider it done. should be up there sometime tonight.)
http://www.myspace.com/jeffhoo
@Jeff - thanks for putting Rose of Sharon up on your MySpace page for us!
And thanks for the beautiful song, too.
I heard that song decades ago in the Rose Garden in Raleigh and still remember the chorus. Sure wish I could hear it again. Does anyone have a recording of Jeff Hart singing it?
There doesn't seem to be one of me sining it on YouTube, but here's Greensboro's Sam Frazier doing a cover of it at a tribute show they did for me about three years ago. https://youtu.be/2EdWKBQuyeg
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