I love it when songwriter tell there stories about how a song came about and who it is about. This song is about my Grandma Cowhick. Her name was Dorothy but family called her Dot. She was my Mom's mother. She is the creative genius of the family.
I can still remember her projects that she made. We had pictures that hung on the wall that had printed pictures of horses. She loved horses. She would mount them in picture frames and place cotton underneath the canvas to make the horses three dimensional. She made jewelry out of safety pins and beads, quilts, afghans, stocking hats, and wall art.
I remember how she showed me how to make a cross that you hung on the wall. It was made out of matches that had been lit and the ends were black instead of red. She would take one match out of the box. She would then take her lit match and light one match on fire inside the box causing all of them to burst into flames. Then she would close the lid to put the fire out. Probably not the safest thing to teach your grandkid but it sure was cool.
She also made trash can. They were made out of rolled up colorful magazine pictures. These were rolled tight and connected together to form small trashcans. She always was working on a project. Two of her other hobbies were photography and photo albums. I still have my photo album . She let me help make my photo album. It was real cool.
I was born in 1958. My theme was pickup truck. So the year I was born had a picture of a 58 pickup. This continued throughout the photo album. I was a little jealous of my cousin Kent. His theme was cars. So he had pictures of mustangs and corvettes. I was able to finally let this go last year after years of therapy. (Just kidding.)
My song Polaroid memories is about my Grandma Dot. Hope you like it.
Polaroid memories
That's me with my cousins, wearing bell bottom jean
an orange sunset shirt with silk puffy sleeves
I thought I was cool in my seventies style
Grandma held up her Kodak, she told me to
Chorus- Smile for the camera, Smile and say Cheese
Look over here, and Smile for me.
Everybody move over, step in a little closer
We're making and taking Polaroid memories
Some photos were blurry, she took the best ones
put em in plastic sleeves, and made photo albums
for all of her children, and every grandchild
when I look at mine I can hear her say
Smile for the camera, smile and say Cheese
Look over here, and smile for me.
Everybody move over, step a little closer
we're making and taking Polaroid memories.
Grandma's gone but the clock never stops
except in the photo's that Grandma shot , she'd say
Smile for the camera, smile and say Cheese
Look over here, and smile for me
Everybody more over, step in a little closer
We're making and taking Polaroid memories.
2021 is going to be a great year to make some Polaroid memories with your families. Smile for the camera, Smile and , Say cheese.