How Will I Know
     ©2007, Roger Judd, CaneyFork Publishing, BMI	

     My friend, Andrew Dunn, of McMinnville Tennessee is a farmer, a
     soldier, a decent Christian, and an old fashioned Southern Gentleman.
     Andrew has suffered tremendously in the past few years...he lost his
     father, then his son, then his wife, all within a two year span. He
     has been a hard working farmer all of his life, yet at his father's
     funeral, he said to me, "How will I know when to plant?" and "How will
     I know when to put out fertilize?" Of course Andrew instinctively knows
     these "farmer" things, but his Dad was always there to "say when" It was
     Andrew's way of expressing his loss. After working on the farm one Spring
     afternoon with my own aging Father, it occured to me that my hours to
     spend with "Pap" doing the kind of work that he so loved, were also
     limited. It was then that I remembered Andrew's words, and I came
     inside and started to write these words. RAJ

     [How will I know when its time to sow       ]
     [and how will I know when to reap           ]
     [What makes the Caney Fork know when to rise]
     [and what makes the whipporwill sing?       ]