Peggy March (born Margaret Annemarie Battavio on March 8, 1948, Lansdale, P… Read Full Bio ↴Peggy March (born Margaret Annemarie Battavio on March 8, 1948, Lansdale, Pennsylvania) is an American pop music singer. She was discovered at age thirteen singing at a wedding and was introduced to the record producer duo Hugo & Luigi. They gave her the nickname Little Peggy March because of her 4'10" height, the fact that she was thirteen, the first record she did with them was "Little Me", and her birthdate was in March.

In April 1963, her single "I Will Follow Him" had soared to number one on U.S. charts. Recorded in early January 1963 and released January 22 of that year, it made Peggy March the youngest female singer with a number one hit at age fifteen. The record also took the number one spot in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Scandinavia.

Her success also came with financial trouble. March was a minor and the Coogan Law prevented her parents from managing her money. The responsibility was placed on her manager, Russell Smith. It was discovered in 1966 that he had squandered the fortune away, leaving her with $500. Peggy graduated from Lansdale Catholic High School in 1966. She soon had a new manager, Arnie Harris, who became her husband and gave her one daughter, Sande, born in 1974.

Though she is remembered by some as a one-hit wonder, her singles "I Wish I Were a Princess" and "Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love" made the Top 30 in the United States and the United Kingdom. She began making a very strong presence in the European and Asian music markets, and she moved to Germany around 1969. Her commercial success in Germany continued through much of the 1970s. In 1979 she experimented with disco on the album, Electrifying, but it failed to achieve commercial success. By 1981 record companies did not renew her contracts, and she moved back to the United States. A retro fad in Germany brought her some continuing success starting in the mid-1990s. Her song "I Will Follow Him" largely inspired the beat in the Eminem and Dr. Dre song Guilty Conscience, and was also featured in the 1992 movie Sister Act. Currently she works largely in the Las Vegas music scene.

Didn't We
Peggy March Lyrics

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This time we almost made the pieces fit
Didn't we?
This time we almost made some sense of it
Didn't we?
This time I had the answer, right here in my hand
Then I touched it and it had turned to sand

This time we almost sang our song in tune

Didn't we, love?
This time we almost made it, made it to the moon
Didn't we, love?
This time we almost made our poem rhyme
This time we almost made that long hard climb
Didn't we almost make it?

Didn't we almost make it?
Didn't we almost make it this time?

Overall Meaning

The song Didn't We by Peggy March speaks about a love that almost worked out. The lyrics express the sentiment that the love between the two people involved was almost perfect, but still fell apart due to some unseen forces. The first stanza speaks of how they almost made sense of the relationship, and how the answer was within reach. However, when the singer touched it, it turned to sand, indicating that the answer was not what they expected.

The second stanza speaks about how they almost sang their song in tune and made it to the moon. These are metaphors for the heights they could have reached together as a couple. They almost made their love story an epic tale, with a romantic and happy ending. They almost made their poem rhyme, indicating that they could have been a perfect match. But in the end, they didn't quite make it, no matter how hard they tried.

The repetition of "didn't we almost make it?" in the chorus highlights the disappointment of the singer. They were so close, but something just didn't click, something didn't fit. The song expresses the pain of knowing that the love you had could have been great, but it was not enough. It's a masterful expression of the bittersweet emotions that come with unfulfilled love.

Line by Line Meaning

This time we almost made the pieces fit
We came really close to making everything work and align perfectly

Didn't we?
Right? Isn't that true?

This time we almost made some sense of it
We almost understood what was going on and had clarity

This time I had the answer, right here in my hand
I was confident I knew the answer and had it within reach

Then I touched it and it had turned to sand
But then everything fell apart and my answer disappeared or was proven to be wrong

This time we almost sang our song in tune
Our love or situation almost fell in harmony and synced up

Didn't we, love?
My beloved, you know that's almost what happened, don't you?

This time we almost made it, made it to the moon
We almost reached our goal, like landing on the moon and achieving the incredible

This time we almost made our poem rhyme
Our words almost flowed and matched up to create a beautiful poem

This time we almost made that long hard climb
We almost overcame a difficult challenge or obstacle that took significant effort to accomplish

Didn't we almost make it?
We were so close to succeeding, weren't we?