“Tribute To A Ray Of Sunshine”

You’d see in ways

That we could not

And when you sang

You said a lot.

“Georgia on (your) mind”

But you were on ours

And we listened to you

For hours and hours.

Those piano keys

You would attack

Then we’d hear you wail

“Hit the road, Jack!”

“America the Beautiful”

Was never sung so well

You sang it on the Mall that Fourth

The crowd fell in your spell.

You kept that old-school class,

That style,

And never lost

That big, wide smile.

Your memory

We honor true

‘Cause, Ray

“(We) can’t stop loving you.”

Wendell Jones

Arnold resident