Name: ‘Who Turned Those Lights On? Kill the B------’: Christmas at Sea 1942 by Gerry Regan
Duration: 10 min 53 s
Description: A 10-minute interview, part of a series conducted with my Dad in 2004 and 2005 reviewing his personal history, from his early childhood in the 1920s to 1985, when he retired from his work heading up the American import operation for Molson Breweries of Canada.

A 10-minute interview, part of a series conducted with my Dad in 2004 and 2005 reviewing his personal history, from his early childhood in the 1920s to 1985, when he retired from his work heading up the American import operation for Molson Breweries of Canada.

‘Who Turned Those Lights On? Kill the B------’: Christmas at Sea 1942

We All Owe God One Death (Blues For All)

When Your Back's Against The Wall

Giving Dreams

Jerry Regan's Observations on His Cousins, the Irwins of Hell's Kitchen

'But the other side of the story was he didn’t commit the crime, his brother did.'

This is an edited version of the Feb. 25, 2004, voice-mail message left by Dr. Chaudhury, my Mom's gerontologist, looking to inform me of my Mom's death.

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In the pre-dawn hours, I traveled to Winthrop Hospital, where my Mom was being treated, after her physician notified me that my Mom had died less than an hour earlier.  This is a recording I made at 6:10 a.m. after leaving the hospital en route to comfort my Dad. The embedded picture presents, left to right, my sister, Laura; my Mom; and I, taken about 1988 during a birthday celebration.

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Bonny Light Horseman

Bright Morning Stars (feat. Justin Vernon, Eric D. Johnson, Josh Kaufman & Anaïs Mitchell)

Edleweiss go'on let your hair down,
Straight hair never went nowhere,
Just up and down, not round and round
Seems time ain't so linear

Crows' caw, crows calling
Calling us home
But we, never left
Just forgot what was going on

So sing even if your voice
Isn't sweet or pure
Sing from your deepest truth
For healing, not to cure

Sing songs
Life goes on and off
Like light on the water
Breathe strong
Love just longing to be one
With the intimate caller

And you can never lose her
And we cannot be without him

If your call out
Is a mournful cry
Let it escape through the sky
If your sounding now
Is a yearning quest of why?
Open wide

It will come clear, sooner than you know
This is but vacation in the body
Real people told us so
Reached out from beyond the boundary

**This song was inspired by and is dedicated to the memories of Emily Morin, Mark Mitchell, Georgia Klap, Edward Paul Chester, R. Pat Kimmet, to all of their loved ones, and to the life of my nephew Charlie Edward Fletcher Borowski, as it was written on his birthday.

‘Who Turned Those Lights On? Kill the B------’: Christmas at Sea 1942

Gerry Regan

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