For all we know
We may never meet again
Before we go
Make this moment live again
We won't say goodbye
Until the last minute
I'll hold out my hand
And my heart will be in it

For all we know
This might only be a dream
We come and we go
Like the ripples, like the ripples in the stream
So baby, love me, love me tonight
Tomorrow was made for some
Oh, but tomorrow
But tomorrow may never, never come
For all we know
Yes, tomorrow may never, never come
For all we know

J. Fred Coots & Sam Lewis

 

Still Making Music

The Old Vaudeville Team Of Coots & Shirley

 

"I have a three fold purpose in life ......make my customers happy, make a profit, & make myself happy" Walter T. Shirley 1949

 

I doubt no one could say Walter Shirley did not fufill his three fold purpose by tenfold. Although he never drank and would often say " WOW...That Palm Beach Crowd can really put away their booze...." Walter was always up for a party and party people. It seems fitting then that the end of his road came in Palm Beach in early 1963. He was hospitalised from complications of a heart attack and passed away on January 29, 1963 at the age of 67.

 

His widow Rose later remarried some guy named Guy. His son Walter Junior who seemed always in line to take over the Shirley empire, sold it for 5 million dollars in 1965 for reasons unknown to this writer. Walter Jr moved to Maryland and passed away in 1992 at the age of 60. There is a scholarship today that bears his name.

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