This is a well known poem about life and death written by Mary Elizabeth Frye in 1932. She wrote it for a Jewish women, Margaret Scharzkopf, who was concerned about her mother, who was ill in Germany. She had been warned not to return home because of increasing unrest. When her mother died, the heartbroken young women told Frye that she never had the chance to "stand by her mother's grave and shed a tear". Frye, according to Van Burren's research, found herself composing a piece of verse on a brown shopping bag. Later she said that the words "just came to her" and expressed what she felt about life and death.

Guest musicians: Dermot Byrne - accordion, Brendan O'Regan - mandolin, Trevor Hutchinson - Double Bass