I love this
Jimmy Webb song. I used to cherry pick parts from it to sing to my son when he
was very little. The parts that were in my register anyway.
I doubt he
remembers any of it, but I substituted Zay-Zay for Christiaan when I sang it to
him (though we never called him Zay-Zay), I needed it to retain the meter).
“Christiaan, no, no, no,
Christiaan no,
Take your time, take your time, take it slow,
You’ll be leaving soon
enough to make the teardrops flow.
***
“You will grow, grow,
grow, Christiaan grow
You will glow like the
moonlight on the snow,
You will fly like the
snowflakes, when the wind begins to blow
take it slow”
***
“’Cause
it hard to know what you want to be,
When you’re just a
little boy who’s turning three,
When you’re just a
little boy who’s only turning 29,
Take your time.”
Simple, but not too sappy (“
Watching Scotty Grow”, for one).
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