abstract
| - %22Try to Remember%22 is a song from the musical comedy The Fantasticks. It is the first song sung in the show, to get the audience to imagine what the sparse set suggests. Its lyrics, written by Tom Jones, famously rhyme %22remember%22 with %22September%22, %22so tender%22, %22ember%22, and %22December%22, and repeat the sequence -llow throughout the song: verse 1 contains %22mellow%22, %22yellow%22, and %22callow fellow%22; verse 2 contains %22willow%22, %22pillow%22, %22billow%22; verse 3 contains %22follow%22, %22hollow%22, %22mellow%22; and all verses end with %22follow%22. Harvey Schmidt composed the music.
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