Few of the duties of Founding-era sheriffs involved criminal law enforcement. Instead, civil executions, attachments and confinements dominated their work.56 When professional police units first arrived on the American scene, they functioned primarily as protectors of public safety, health and welfare.
Bette Midler â Wind Beneath My Wings lyrics. Ohhhh, oh, oh, oh, ohhh. It must have been cold there in my shadow, To never have sunlight on your face. You were content to let me shine, that's your way. You always walked a step behind. So I was the one with all the glory, While you were the one with all the strength.
The romantic ballads of Texas-born Gary Morris were staples of country radio in the 1980s -- none more so than The Wind Beneath My Wings, which was covered by Bette Midler later in the decade and became a song heard at weddings perhaps more often than any other.