{"id":781,"date":"2025-08-25T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=781"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:09:38","slug":"mm-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2025\/08\/25\/mm-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun (Lyrics)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/21I_XsR400Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This song has held very special memories for me for over 50 years. We lost my beautiful 17 year old cousin, Beth, in an auto accident in 1974. . Not only my first funeral, but the first time I had heard the song. It&#8217;s been hard to hear it ever-since, but I carry treasured memories of her. RIP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Terry Jacks &#8211; Seasons In The Sun<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The lyrics &#8220;Goodbye my friend, it&#8217;s hard to die&#8221; are from the song &#8220;Seasons in the Sun&#8221; by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=10&amp;sca_esv=9c56d715d9c4b9a7&amp;rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1070US1070&amp;cs=0&amp;q=Terry+Jacks&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjz37WojaSPAxWnFlkFHT9pMlAQxccNegQIAxAB&amp;mstk=AUtExfD18dAXeN9SbOWqC9PKpUmnf-JrAhNkZqWuT2HvPTe7Al_vI6crxja56IGyavPLSocckgwUXR6H-w1Vay3sWEgIsy4pxOpnEYXwbAbiaggl2dj7Ci9-hjK7aJK6V6JJBpUpjQAztAjxQx2_JeKIJqfTPWJ1rWvwrHZf5hoai-ItPY8KaZEfUwDKAR-RuttlOd0p&amp;csui=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Terry Jacks<\/a>,\u00a0but the phrase originates from the Belgian original &#8220;Le Moribond&#8221; by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=10&amp;sca_esv=9c56d715d9c4b9a7&amp;rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1070US1070&amp;cs=0&amp;q=Jacques+Brel&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjz37WojaSPAxWnFlkFHT9pMlAQxccNegQIAxAC&amp;mstk=AUtExfD18dAXeN9SbOWqC9PKpUmnf-JrAhNkZqWuT2HvPTe7Al_vI6crxja56IGyavPLSocckgwUXR6H-w1Vay3sWEgIsy4pxOpnEYXwbAbiaggl2dj7Ci9-hjK7aJK6V6JJBpUpjQAztAjxQx2_JeKIJqfTPWJ1rWvwrHZf5hoai-ItPY8KaZEfUwDKAR-RuttlOd0p&amp;csui=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jacques Brel<\/a>.\u00a0While Brel&#8217;s song was about a man dying of a broken heart and bidding farewell to his wife&#8217;s lover, the American translation by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=10&amp;sca_esv=9c56d715d9c4b9a7&amp;rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1070US1070&amp;cs=0&amp;q=Rod+McKuen&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjz37WojaSPAxWnFlkFHT9pMlAQxccNegQIBBAC&amp;mstk=AUtExfD18dAXeN9SbOWqC9PKpUmnf-JrAhNkZqWuT2HvPTe7Al_vI6crxja56IGyavPLSocckgwUXR6H-w1Vay3sWEgIsy4pxOpnEYXwbAbiaggl2dj7Ci9-hjK7aJK6V6JJBpUpjQAztAjxQx2_JeKIJqfTPWJ1rWvwrHZf5hoai-ItPY8KaZEfUwDKAR-RuttlOd0p&amp;csui=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rod McKuen<\/a> and the subsequent Terry Jacks version shift the focus to the speaker saying goodbye to their loved ones, including a father figure, as they die from a natural cause.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. This song has held very special memories for me for over 50 years. We lost my beautiful 17 year old cousin, Beth, in an auto accident in 1974. . Not only my first funeral, but the first time I had heard the song. It&#8217;s been hard to hear it ever-since, but I carry treasured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}