Sandy Fallis

Our dear friend of many years died August 16, 2006 after battling cancer. We love all of Sandy's songs, but one in particular, The Backslider's Waltz, or as we always called it, The Bar Room Song, it always stood out to Margit and myself. She wrote  it perhaps 20 years ago, when she and her husband, Jack, were in very dire financial straits. Sandy entered a music contest at a night club where they lived in Artesia, New Mexico. $100 went to the winner, and you guessed it, she won the contest which put food on the table for her kids, plus a couple of other bills that needed immediate attention.

Moreover, she said that there were tears flooding down just about everyone's cheeks, especially that of the drunks. They told her that they had never heard anything like that in their lives, that she sang a song about a Lord that they could believe in and embrace. 

The Pathfinder
Elwin & Margit Roach
PO Box 4004
Alamogordo, NM 88311-4004