Subject: Bad News! "Try To Remember"-The Fantasticks (Play)

The play "The Fantasticks" will come to a close after 42 years running. It is the longest running play ever. It is also closing at a poignant time in our lives.

The song "Try To Remember" is the most popular of the play.

If you read the lyrics and if you ever hear the song and listen, you will no doubt find it somber, for it reflects many of the thoughts many of us have since the tragedy of September 11, 2001.

The songs lyrics are as follows:

"Try To Remember" Written by Tom Jones

Try to remember the kind of September
when life was slow and oh, so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
when grass was green and grain was yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
when you were a tender and callow fellow,
Try to remember and if you remember the follow.

Try to remember when life was so tender
that no one wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender that
dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender that
love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember and if you remember then follow.

Deep in December it's nice to remember
altho you know the snow will follow.
Deep in December it's nice to remember
without the hurt the heart is hollow.
Deep in December it's nice to remember
the fire of September that made us mellow.
Deep in December our hearts should remember and follow.