Oh Happy Sunday!!!
I’ve been trying to get back in the saddle and swing, and Song Lyric Sunday is one of my favorite exercises in sharing 🙂 Helen Espinosa hosts this great prompt idea.
I wrote a post for my other blog – Windchimes and Dreamcatchers, and it really got me to thinking. On that platform, I post poetry, fiction, romance, and writing prompts that I don’t think fit the platform of this blog, and usually never anything personal. As I was working on it, I wrote one line that just hit home something fierce 🙂
Helen’s prompt for today is to share a LOVE song in honor of Valentine’s Day (and her upcoming wedding – YAY!!)
I’ve been with my husband going on 40 years. We met when I was 16, he was 18; we got our first apartment when I was 17. Neither of us could wait to get out on our own and live our own lives – together 🙂 Though we didn’t make much money, we managed and still had enough to have quite a bit of fun close to home. We were together about eight years when we decided to start our little family.
Though I couldn’t begin to count all the love songs that have been close to my heart for different reasons at different times, I have a few all-time favorites. I shared a couple of those on my other blog, yeah, I said a couple 😉
As I was writing a line below the video for Sonny & Cher’s I Got You Babe, and listening to the song, I couldn’t help but tear up. This was our song from the very beginning. It wasn’t all that old in 1978, we really were pretty young. But something about when we talked (and when we didn’t), we just knew we were soulmates – and yes I believe in that sort of thing 🙂
It’s just a simple little ditty, some might even say corny now – but it is so much more. So, here it is, the song that probably would be my #1 go-to love song to describe us ❤
I Got You Babe – Performed by Sonny & Cher
They say we’re young and we don’t know
We won’t find out until we grow
Well I don’t know if all that’s true
‘Cause you got me, and baby I got you
Babe
I got you babe
I got you babe
They say our love won’t pay the rent
Before it’s earned, our money’s all been spent
I guess that’s so, we don’t have a pot
But at least I’m sure of all the things we got
Babe
I got you babe
I got you babe
I got flowers in the spring
I got you to wear my ring
And when I’m sad, you’re a clown
And if I get scared, you’re always around
Don’t let them say your hair’s too long
‘Cause I don’t care, with you I can’t go wrong
Then put your little hand in mine
There ain’t no hill or mountain we can’t climb
Babe
I got you babe
I got you babe
I got you to hold my hand
I got you to understand
I got you to walk with me
I got you to talk with me
I got you to kiss goodnight
I got you to hold me tight
I got you, I won’t let go
I got you to love me so
I got you babe
I got you babe
I got you babe
I got you babe
I got you babe
I got you babe
I got you babe
I got you babe
Written by Sonny Bono • Copyright © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
Anyway, just something I was thinking about . . . my soulmate, our life . . . ❤
Just something I was thinking about . . . 
Awwww, this is such a great song and I loved that you shared your story. It’s amazing how songs can so perfectly describe something and they can be so personal. Thanks so much for sharing!
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Thanks for the inspiration 😘
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This is awfully sweet. Glad you’ve found your mate of souls.
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Great classic song. My wife and I dressed up like Sonny and Cher for Halloween one year. (i had a lot of alcohol that night). You shared a nice story. Thanks for the memory.
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Jesus……how in the world does that happen? Being with the same man 40 years, that is too long, gotta get out and about with sexy and young men like me.
It doesn’t fit in my head why my parents have been together for exactly maybe one up or down, probably up, have been together for so long.
I like it, you found YOUR man, and you love him so that makes me smile, lets see if I ever get a women that I can be for so long.
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I’ve had young sexy men flirt with me over the years, & older sexy men (when I was younger) but you gotta think about happiness sometimes in the long run, not short term & fleeting… & personally I have to be able to look myself in the mirror everyday with a clear conscience…
And you will someday when you’re ready & the right one comes along … maybe you just haven’t met her yet, or maybe you have & you just haven’t realized it yet 😎
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Very creative poost
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