When Mum turned 50 we held an enormous party. 200 people, sit down dinner, the works. Now, both my brothers and Dad all play the guitar and quite like standing up in front of lots of people to sing songs. I'm not so keen myself, but when they suggested rewriting The Weight by The Band song to reflect Mum and what she has done for us and then singing it at her party, I couldn't say no. So we sang Take A Load off Judeeee. I was dreadful, really did get up there and proved that I can't sing to 200 of my nearest and dearest. To get the right key for the boys, it was totally the wrong range for me. But Mum didn't care. She loved it, and that was what mattered.
Moving on a decade or so, I have 2 small boys. A dear friend gave them a cd with grown up music on that she thought they would like. This song was one of them. The boys love it. Dave loves it. We are playing it a lot. So, in many ways it will also remind me of this time, driving the boys to nursery in the car, having them belt it out at the top of their voices. I still can't sing it but I still love it.
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