Lilac Trees are Blooming

A few hours before my grandma left this world, we gathered around her bed and sang a song to her that she used to sing to us (still working on remembering all of the words since the ones she sang weren't the official words): "Lilac Trees are Blooming"

• Lilac trees are blooming in the garden by the gate


• Mammy in her little cabin door


• Curly headed picanniny coming home so late crying cuz his heart was sore


• All the other children with their skin so white and fair


• with him would never play


• so mammy in her lap took the weeping little chap


• and said in her kind old way


• ???????????


• Don't mind what the white folk say/do


• ??????????? Just stay in your own backyard

Love you Gram! Lilac will always remind me of you!