I used this song for a montage when Pace turned six but really think of it as “Sasha’s song” since it was the first song I sang to her in the delivery room after she was born.
Pace’s first song was more planned – I knew I wanted to play him John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy” and that’s what he heard in the car as I white-knuckled him home from the hospital, scared shitless about driving with a “Baby on Board” for the first time in my life!
I don’t know what I had planned to play/sing for Sasha but when I first held her, this song came to mind and though it’s short and sweet, it’s also perfect (well, nearly perfect – I always insert one extra line after the “bad” and “sad” ones to use another natural rhyme that fits quite well: “There are things that make me glad/You seem to be one of them” before the final kicker of a line “There are things that make me dad/You seem to be all of them”.)
“Things” – Barenaked Ladies
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