“A Guy Named Joe”

“I wish you could hear what I'm saying to you, Dorinda. When I look at you now, I sure wish I'd been different. Wish I'd told you a lot of things that I thought of but I just couldn't find the words to say 'em. I wish I'd told you how cute your nose is and how it turns up at the end all of a sudden, and how good the smell of your hair is, how your eyes light up when you laugh, and how you fit into my arms just as though you belonged there. But I didn't tell you.”

“You're gonna have a wonderful life. Everything's gonna seem prettier than it was before. The rain's gonna have a little more smell to it. The trees are gonna seem a little greener. And the nights are gonna be all chock full of stars. And when you go to sleep, Dorinda, you're not gonna have any bad dreams. And when that morning sunlight hits you in the face, you're gonna wake up laughing.”