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We'll Meet That Day – Single

by Jeni Hankins

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Alfred Hickling and I were exchanging lyrics and melodies back and forth by email during the Coronavirus lockdown in England in early February 2021. I had finished a lyric I started in January about snow and Alfred sent me two possible melody and mood ideas for the snow song.

I chose a minor key feel on banjo for the snow song, but this guitar-based melody reminded me of a Carter family style song. So, I was inspired to write lyrics for it. I had been thinking a lot about my Dad (my Dad passed away in July of 2016) because Valentine's Day was coming up and Mom and Dad got married on Valentine's Day. Growing up, it was more of an all around family holiday where we celebrated our adventure as children of really young parents and the love we all shared.

I also had Mawmaw Margie on my mind. Her birthday is the fourth of February and she died back in 1991 on the 23rd of February. So, this year she will have been gone for thirty years. That hardly seems possible because she is so present in my life, in the way my hands look, in my feistiness, and in the crimp in my hair. Mawmaw Margie was a real character who wore polyester slacks and was always laughing when she wasn't cross. I liked to sit on her kitchen countertop and eat bowls of cereal with my special spoon in my special bowl. She always seemed to be washing dishes or hanging out laundry on the line. She kept our dog Snooker's gall stones in a jar in her buffet sideboard.

So many people are grieving after a year of coronavirus and many people will be living with the memories of people they loved, wondering how to keep going without the physical presence of someone in their life. Like you, I feel all of the ways a person is always still present in that strangely fleeting, but sometimes very powerful way that people are both mortal and immortal.

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I remember the day we said goodbye
I never thought you’d go
I guess I hoped you’d live forever
just cause I wished it so

You always told me
no body could hold me
the spirit is where reside, deep inside me
so, that’s where I’ll seek you
and I still believe
we’ll meet that day in the sky

You used to sing ‘bout that lonesome valley
the one that we walk all alone
but I’ll always have a true companion
in the wisdom I learned in our home

I climbed the path up to our mountain
brought flowers to your grave
I knew you spoke in the trees around me
you’d rolled the stone away

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released February 22, 2021
Written by Jeni Hankins and Alfred John Hickling
© Jeni Hankins, Lulu Wall Music, BMI
and Alfred John Hickling

Music and Harmony by Alfred John Hickling
Vocals by Jeni Hankins
Mixed and Mastered by Jeni Hankins

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.” ... more

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