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"For All We Know" (We May Never Meet Again)
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Sometimes a Song

"For All We Know" (We May Never Meet Again)

Fred Coots & Sam Lewis

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The lyrics of today’s Sometimes a Song were written by composer/lyricist Fred Coots, who in his long career published over 700 popular songs, including quite a few that are represented in the American Songbook. Fred’s mother, a classical pianist, wanted her son to follow in her footsteps. But Fred, coming of age just around the end of WWI, was drawn t…

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