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Vera, 90, sings Patsy Cline with funny new words

Vera is 90 years old, and she has a few notes for Patsy Cline. more

The song she picks is Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces." Vera keeps the tune and throws out the words, then writes new ones from a senior citizen's point of view. Her version has a new name to match, "We Fall to Pieces."

She sits near a window with an acoustic guitar, a white cardigan over her floral top. Before the first chord, she introduces the song to a room of fellow grandmas and grandpas. She also has a warning. If any of them think it is not true, she has news for them.

Vera, an older woman with white hair, plays an acoustic guitar while seated indoors near a window. A headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
Vera keeps Patsy Cline's tune and writes her own lyrics from a senior citizen's point of view.

Then she starts to strum. In her version, we fall to pieces just when we are having a ball. We fall to pieces again each time we forget our Geritol.

An older adult female wearing a floral-patterned top with a white cardigan or light jacket draped over her shoulders, holding a guitar strap around her neck in an indoor setting. The headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
Vera is 90 years old, and she has a few notes for Patsy Cline.

People who hear it keep praising two things, her singing voice and her sense of humor. One calls the humor wicked. Another calls her a genius.

Vera, wearing a floral top and a white cardigan, sings while playing an acoustic guitar. A headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
The song is a laugh, but listeners keep coming back to how well she sings it.

Under Tifany Richardson's video, the comments thank her again and again for sharing her grandmother. Many people want the song for themselves. One plans to sing it at a local senior center, another at a church event for older adults, and several ask for the lyrics and her full name so Vera gets the credit.

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Listeners ask for the lyrics so they can sing "We Fall to Pieces" themselves.

Others hope to reach 90 looking that good, or singing and playing like that. A few keep it short. It is all true, they write. At 90, Vera would know.

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