default song February 13, 2008

i need a new one.

when i lived overseas my
default song was

love in any language

it still makes me laugh to think
about it.  my kind and helpful
team/family made me eat these
nasty cookies (even after they got
old) every time i sang the song.

i was broken of the habit.

when you are in a dark room
trying to make one of your crying
patients go to sleep your default
songs surface.

as i lightly ticked the forehead of
an irritable baby the other night
i knew a song would help the
situation.  so i started singing…

“my bonnie lies over the ocean,
my bonnie lies over the sea….”
i sang in a half whisper like a
lullaby.

my mind blanked.
i had nothing,
but bonnie!!

i thought of cory singing the
weenie man song to the girls
at bedtime one night when
i was in town last month.
(see karijo’s post about it)

i sang a bit of ‘my bonnie lies
over the ocean’ and then a few
lines of there is a redeemer came
to me, so i went with that.  even
with my initial poor song choice
it still worked. 

she was asleep.

(i’m sure that’s what cory was
thinking too!)

all that to say,

i need a new default song,
bonnie and the ocean

will
not
do!!

maybe i should go back to
love in any language,
after all, there is sign language
i still remember that goes
along with it!

update: 2-26-28
i was just informed by julie that my
default song is not ‘my bonnie’ but
‘for the beauty of the earth’.  you
know that hymn?  she is right.  i do
sing this quite often and i only really
know the first line of the song.  it just
kills her.