Name: Song for Helen
Duration: P00H01M43S
Description: I wrote this for my Grandmother "Nana" during and after her last week in human form and I sang it at her funeral. I recorded it leading up to her 100th Birthday last year. Today, on the 101st anniversary of her birth, I signed up for bandcamp!

Song for Helen

by John Snell the Tenth

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I wrote this for my Grandmother "Nana" during and after her last week in human form and I sang it at her funeral. I recorded it leading up to her 100th Birthday last year. Today, on the 101st anniversary of her birth, I signed up for bandcamp!

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For Helen Coffin--2005

She hasn't spoken once since Tuesday
And her hands and feet are getting cold.
She's my lovingly Mrs. Coffin Grandma
After tomorrow she'll no longer be old.

I met my sunny Grandma in the summer
She was wearing shades.
She met me the day I was born "The finger in the light socket" boy.

Chorus:
Mother, Helen, Cousin and Nana too.
A bright or a sad day, we knew we could talk to you.

She loved her Scottish Cairn Terrier, and everything else Scottish too.
She loved the Minnesota Vikings, and, well, everything else PURPLE too.

I see my sunny Grandma in a lawn chair and wearing shades.
Paper-back book in hand salting watermelon by the lake.

Mother, Helen, Cousin and Nana too.
A bright or a sad day, we knew we could talk to you.

by Jay Snell (johnsnellx.com)

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released September 27, 2015
Recording and performed by John Snell X

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John Snell the Tenth Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnesota native John Snell (the Tenth) started writing music when he was just fifteen, but his musical admiration was apparent at an even earlier age. John's mother can attest to him dancing to the hum of the vacuum cleaner while he was still in cloth diapers. Since these early days JS10 has written over 200 songs, grown out of diapers, and released more than 6 full-length albums (& 1 unreleased) ... more

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