Sentimental Sandwich

Hi Everyone - Thought I would share with you some excerpts I took from emails from Steve:

2/4/10
Last night an elderly Turkish lady, with her Americanized daughter, sat immediately to my right in the piano bar. The elderly lady wanted me to do "Sentimental Journey"

However, this lady apparently hadn't eaten for a while, and "unconsciously" had food on her mind. In her thick Turkish accent she asked me to play "Sentimental Sandwich"

She didn't know she had said this...not for a few seconds anyway.......

I sat there with a quizzical look on my face for a moment. She seemed serious about her request, so I politely asked if she possibly meant Sentimental Journey rather than Sentimental Sandwich.

At this point it dawned on her what she had said, and she and her daughter, and the other six people sitting around the piano, had a very good laugh.

Trying to milk this as much as possible I proceeded to sing

Gonna make -- a Sentimental Sandwich

Gonna set my heart at ease

Gonna eat a Sentimental Sandwich

Lots of ham and lots of cheese

Got the bread, I got the salt 'n pepper

Got the ketchup, the mustard too

If you want a Sentimental Sandwich

I'll make another one for you

Lettuce --- lots 'n lots of leaves of

lettuce -- baby I believe in

lettuce -- countin' every.......

This is about as far as I got, at which point I broke down and stopped playing. The remaining hour of the night was chock-full of sandwich jokes from everybody. This lady took it all in stride, and I think she'll be back tonight. But that song will never be the same again to me.

Hoping to "renew old memories" with you all in the near future.

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From Steve's 2/10/10 email:

Tonight is the last night of the "Sentimental Sandwich" cruise, and I've printed up some singalong copies of a completed version -- to be sung to the sweet old Turkish lady who started all this -- pictured on the right in the attached photo)

Gonna make a Sentimental Sandwich

Loaded up with cheddar cheese

Gonna make a Sentimental Sandwich

To renew my calories

Got the ham, I got the salt and pepper

Got the mayo, the mustard too

If you want a Sentimental Sandwich

I'll make another one for you

Lettuce -- lots and lots of leaves of lettuce

Most important thing is lettuce

Spinach and some cabbage and

Romaine too -- scooby dooby doo

Gonna have Sentimental Sandwich

With a coke and a bowl of fries

Gonna make a Sentimental sandwich

Sentimental Paradise