Dashing Through the Snow - Fran Schultz

She walked to the mailbox On that bright summers day Found a letter from her son In a war, far away He spoke of the weather And good friends that he'd made Said, " I'd been thinking 'bout dad And the life that he had that's why, I'm here today" And then in the end he said, "You are what I'm fighting for" It was the first of his letters from war She started writing You're good and you're brave What a father that you'll be someday Make it home, make it safe She wrote every night as she prayed Late in December A day, she'll not forget Oh, her tears stained the paper With every word that she read It said, "I was up on a hill, I was out there alone When the shots all rang out and bombs were exploding That's when I saw him, he came back for me And though he was captured a man set me free And that man was your son, he asked me to write to you I told him, I would, Oh, I swore" It was the last of the letters from war And she prayed, he was living, kept on believing And wrote every night just to say You are good and you're brave What a father that you'll be someday Make it home, make it safe Still she kept writing each day Then two years later Autumn leaves, all around A car pulled in the driveway And she fell to the ground And out stepped a captain Where her boy used to stand He said, "Mom, I'm followin' orders From all of your letters and I've come home again" He ran into hold her, dropped all his bags on the floor Holdin' all of her letters from war Bring him home Bring him home Bring him home

Looking back He sees it all It was her first date the night he came to call Her dad said son Have her home on time And promise me you'll never leave her side He took her to a show in town And he was ten feet off the ground (Chorus) He was walking her home And holding her hand Oh the way she smiled it stole the breath right out of him Down that old road With the stars up above He remembers where he was the night he fell in love He was walking her home Ten more years and a waiting room At half past one And the doctor said come in and meet your son His knees went weak When he saw his wife She was smiling as she said he's got your eyes And as she slept he held her tight His mind went back to that first night (Chorus) He walked her through the best days of her life Sixty years together and he never left her side A nursing home At eighty-five And the doctor said it could be her last night And the nurse said Oh Should we tell him now Or should he wait until the morning to find out When they checked her room that night He was laying by her side Oh he was walking her home And holding her hand Oh the way she smiled when he said this is not the end And just for a while they were eighteen And she was still more beautiful to him than anything He was walking her home He was walking her home Looking back He sees it all It was her first date the night he came to call