Song time
It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me well at all but I don't sing much. I don't have what I would consider to be a terrible voice. At least I don't think so it's just that I'm not really a 'singing' type of guy. About the only times I would ever catch myself singing were in the shower and in the car. But even those two instances have changed in that I no longer live alone and wouldn't want to subject anyone, not even my wife, to my a cappella version of whatever happens to be in my head on a particular day. Also, the tape deck in my car broke a few years ago and I rarely find a song on the radio worth singing to. (That's right, I still own literally hundreds of self-made tapes. Someday I will pass them on to Elliott.)
But recently I have found myself breaking into song a bit more often during the day and never at a time when I would logically expected it to happen. It's always when I'm feeding Elliott. I don't know why. You tell me. Why is it standard practice for so many people to sing in the shower? Acoustics? Who knows?
There is almost always a song in either the forefront or the back of my head and I think, particularly when Elliott was a little younger, singing kept him focused on the task at hand, which is to eat and not feed the dog.
The early standard eating song was The Ohio Express' 1968 classic Yummy Yummy Yummy which usually was modified to include some facsimile of the lyrics "Yummy yummy yummy green beans in my tummy" and "Ooh, I like green beans, ooh they're so yummy, ooh they're my favorite foooooooood."
Since then we have expanded Elliott's diet and my repertoire of his breakfast and lunch entertainment. Now pretty much any song that I happen to have heard within the previous 48 is in danger of undergoing my remix. I just can't wait until Elliott's watching VH1 Classic in 15 years on his 3D television contacts and comes to the startling realization that Jay Z's Dirt Off Your Shoulder actually has very little to do with Sweet Potatoes.
I think my No. 1 dream job of all time is to be one of the
backing members of the Ohio Express.
Suppose u're really qualified in that topic and should continue
writing on the topic!
Go on the same, way!
Cheers
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