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For Stanley, to whom I owe a new way of seeing what music does for us.

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Unit #3

I went to sing for Woven Hearts, Unit #3

Walkers and wheelchairs circle around me

I sang 'em my songs, they sang me their songs

We sang a little bit off key

We had a time out in Unit #3

I found a hand clapper, I found a toe tapper too

I found my real voice and I did the best that I could do

Their minds were traveling, their eyes were flashing

With a passion you could see

We let 'er rip out in Unit #3

Stanley had a verse that he'd made up

About his wife who had passed away last spring

Softly Stanley starts to sing:

You were my sunshine, my only sunshine

You loved me even when skies were gray

My world is dark now 'cause you're not with me

Why did they take my sunshine away

The sun was setting, there was orange light all around our feet

And around that bare-souled man and his song so sweet

I never felt more healed up, I never felt more human

As when he sang his song for me

I want to sing like that, I want to sing like that

I want to sing for you like Unit #3

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from Story Songs (2002), released June 30, 2003

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James Hersch Minneapolis, Minnesota

I live on this piece of prairie. I'm passionate and dedicated to writing songs in hopes of singing them for people. I don't think I could continue without both ends of that process. Create then hope. It's here I write songs, and here I wait to sing them for others. ... more

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