doesn’t have a story line, but
that describes feeling or an idea.
I love to sing Adele’s hit, “To
Make You Feel My Love,” by Bob
Dylan. Each phrase expresses a
different way the singer could
prove her love. My challenge is
remembering the order in which
Dylan wrote those phrases.
Another one I love to sing, “The
Glory of Love,” is the hit from the
film “Beaches” and sung by Bet-
te Midler. If when performing,
I write the first rhyming word
of each phrase on the palm of
my hand, that word will prompt
my recall of the entire longer
phrase, ending with its rhyming
partner. It’s unlikely that an audi-
ence would recognize – or care
– if a singer re-arranged the or-
der of the complete phrases, be-
cause there’s no story line; just
a bit of wisdom expressed each
time in a different way:
“You’ve got to give a little,
take a little, and make your poor
heart break a little. That’s the
glory of, that’s the story of love.
You’ve got to laugh a little, cry
Listen to Bette Midler sing “Glory of Love” from Beaches
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