Bless Your Heart's

   Uncle Jay Sang Tenor   by Madelyn Shields       My Uncle Jay is an extremely talented person and when you meet him you don't forget him. He has that kind of effect on you. He is handsome, intelligent, loving, kind and just an all around good guy. He is musically talented too, playing the flat top guitar, steel guitar, bass, saxophone, among other instruments and he could yodel! He is an amazing person.       So this is where my story begins....The year was around 1948.  Karen, my sister and I were very small; Karen six and me...I would have been four and Uncle Jay was in his teens.  Jay is my Mother's only sibling and is ten years younger than Mother so that made him about eleven years older than me; like an older brother. Karen and I thought he was the Stuff! ( still do).        Our church was called The Upper Room, because it ...