“I saw Willie Mays at a Scottsdale Home Depot
Looking at garage door springs at the far end of the 14th row
His wife stood there beside him
She was quiet and they both were proud
I gave them room but I was close enough
That I heard him when he said out loud
‘This was my country, this was my song
Somewhere in the middle there, though it started badly and it’s ending wrong.’”
Joe Henry, “Our Song”