Me And My Shadow

[JamesMichael]

Men,

I was about 5-6 years old and being sexually abused by a neighborhood boy in the public housing projects. He would take me behind the building. I had a favorite song I used to sing then. I clearly remember walking up the concrete-over-steel steps to the apartment I shared with my parents and four other brothers and singing:

Me and my shadow,
Strolling down the avenue,
Me and my shadow,
Not a soul to tell our troubles to...

And when it's twelve o'clock,
We climb the stair,
We never knock,
For nobody's there...

Just me and my shadow,
All alone and feelin' blue...

And when it's twelve o'clock,
We climb the stair,
We never knock,
For nobody's there...

Just me and my shadow,
All alone and feelin' blue...

(Music by Al Jolson and Dave Dreyer with lyrics by Billy Rose, 1927)

I just remembered this a few weeks ago. How telling? Where'd I learn it? Some part of me knew what it was singing.

Just wanted to share this.

JM

 

[michaelb]

very touching....thank you for sharing.....michael

 

[Cement]

SOmetimes songs we sing and never think of their meaning really are meaningful.

This is one of those poignant, sad, almost creepy songs.

Peace