¡Oye, mami! This one, I think I understand. The papa is just finishing making a Lincoln Logs house with his daughter and they are putting the pieces into the bin (Ok, ok, I don’t know why they are throwing them into the trash. That part, no lo entiendo).
Anyway, he splains to her that now there is no more house, just pieces. The house is gone.
And she’s very thoughtful, and she starts to think about music, how music stays around even when it’s all done in the hearts and in the minds. Maybe, mami, she is thinking about Babalu, you think? Every time I play, I finish it, and sometimes I think I can see people dancing in their heads when the music is done. You know what I mean, don’t you, Lucy? That’s what’s she’s feeling.
So, what does she do about this? She thinks about the most majestic music she can think about. Maybe they live in New York and she’s thinking about that new organ they’re building at Riverside Church, no? Ok, she says, I am going to give some money to that church so they can buy that organ so it can be around a long time and so the music it will make will be around even longer.
