Song #14 - Normandy & The Nurse's Salute

Here it is... Song #14... All the kids/staff at the Rock & Roll Camp seemed to really like this one, and have been bugging me to get it posted. (Umm... Here you go Kellen :) Finally got it posted) My friend Jack Johnson stopped at my house on the way up to camp and played some sax for me too. Good times.

So, sometimes this song kinda gets me a little choked up... I think about kids that have to go through live like this and I've had a lot of friends and family in my life get diagnosed with cancer lately.

Normandy has a bunch of parallels to WWII's battle of Normandy D-Day. IF you remember a couple things from your history classes... you probably can pick them out.

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Normandy & The Nurse's Salute

Normandy. She is braver than me
She seen more beds in hospitals that a child should ever see
Jokingly... she said soon she'll be bald like me
Her sense of humor gets her through chemotherapy
She always makes the nurses laugh and she sticks out her tongue
They all have funny stories about what Normandy has done

CHORUS:
Another day. Another victory... in the battle for Normandy's
Life against an invisible enemy
She made it to another birth day. She turned 13
That 6th of June was a Delightful Day
Another Day another Victory. A Victory for Normandy
Against the odds she made it to see 13

Normandy has seen things that she should never see
All her friends around her are sick or dying
Sometimes she calls for her mother in the middle of the night
But the bad dreams don't go away when she turns out the light
She's made a lot of friends. She always tries to make them laugh.
Some of them got better and some of them have passed

Normandy's nickname is the general
She calls the doctors her allies and the nurses her troops
To Normandy, all the nurses they salute
The little things that get her through the day
Doctors said she wouldn't make it to see 18
But on her 18th birthday, she came to visit and say...
“Another Day! Another victory! Another victory for me!
You said I would never see 18!” She stuck out her tongue and yelled..
“Oh yeah, Here I am... I'm 18... Look at me!”
“Another Day! Another victory! You said I would never see 18!”
So she stuck out here tongue and said, “Well Look at me!”

(c) & (p) 2008 Daniel L. Vaillancourt (ASCAP)