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Malcolm Brooks makes an accidental pocket call and finds himself talking to an old classmate. At first he’s in a hurry to end the conversation, but then he realizes what’s most important to do at that moment.

Mary Patterson: vocals and guitar
Halley Elwell: vocals
Halley Elwell: teaching artist
Malcolm Brooks – story source

Storyteller

Malcolm Brooks

Teaching Artists

Not specified

Performers

Mary Patterson

Song Lyrics

My phone calls up
Somebody I barely knew
Maybe two words
Two words in high school

I can’t really say
We don’t even know
Know each other
But she wants to talk, so I
Listen

For thirty-six years
She got up before the sun rise
And taught little children
The whole day long

Bought herself a van
Traveled to California
This pocket call
Is getting long
But she wants to talk, so I
Listen

Not a teacher now
She’s got nowhere to go
No place to be
No one to see

Oh, why’d it take
A whole conversation
For me
To open my heart
If she wants to talk, I will
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