00:02As we prepare to commit our brother Ronald Cooper to his final resting place,
00:06I'd like to invite his daughter Allison to honor her father with a song.
00:17I used to play this song when I was younger.
00:20And it meant a lot to me.
00:23I'd like to think it meant a lot to him too.
00:32Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath.
00:37Keep me in your heart for a while.
00:42If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less.
00:48Keep me in your heart for a while.
00:53When you wake up in the morning and you see that crazy sun,
00:59Keep me in your heart for a while.
01:04There's a train leaving nightly cold when all is said and done.
01:11Keep me in your heart for a while.
01:16La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la love.
01:22Keep me in your heart for a while.
01:27La la la la.
01:28This is what happens.
01:30You marry your high school sweetheart.
01:33You have a couple kids.
01:35You start making money.
01:37It's not a lot.
01:39But if you keep your nuts small, you can save for a rainy day.
01:44And those do come.
01:47So you tell yourself, next year is the year you'll travel.
01:51Buy the nice car.
01:53You get so accustomed to postponing the reward, you forget what it was you wanted in the first place.
01:59But that's alright.
02:02At least you have your health.
02:05Then, on a day like any other day, you go to sleep and you don't wake up.
02:12And your carefully managed life ends just like that.
02:15With no warning.
02:17And no fanfare.
02:20Laid to rest by a pastor who's never even met you.
02:23And knowing my father, he would have been okay with that.
02:27But I think he would have liked to say goodbye.
02:29Goodbye.
02:30Goodbye.
02:33Goodbye.
02:35Goodbye.
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