My Mother’s Song Books One of my earliest and fondest memories is watching my mom sitting at the kitchen table writing down the lyrics of her favorite songs in a brown composition spiral bound notebook as she listened to them on the radio. Obviously it took many “listenings” for her to eventually capture all the lyrics. She had been doing this for years as a young teenager before I was born and accumulated a big stack of those little notebooks you could probably buy at the “dime store” in those days for a nickel. My mom, who is only 16 years older than me, was born Wilma Lorea Dame and now widowed as Wilma Lorea Ward, was married to Fritz Rowden when Lois and I were born, and then to Clarence Lindsey, the father of my 5 handsome brothers. Several years ago I asked her about the books and found out she had thrown many of them away after my sister had transcribed them into a computer program. It took me a while to convince her it wasn’t the lyrics that I wanted. It was the old faded