One of the great joys of parenthood is that you get to return to your own youth. Specifically, to those days when you could listen to a song on repeat. Endlessly.
We're pretty lucky that the girls are young at a time when there are some really fantastic kid albums around. Musicians we love are making music for young'uns. There is the occasional tune that wears thin. Usually that happens when we watch something old with a song that was terrible to begin with. On the whole, the girls have some good music.
The album we've had on repeat recently is a bunch of traditional songs and nursery rhymes from Lisa Loeb. The opening track gets the most play. It's a familiar one.
It's only after one turns a song over in their mind for the fiftieth or hundredth time that you can appreciate when a new insight pops out. I had one of those insights to this song. Unfortunately, it's not been a good one. Now the Big Rock Candy Mountain makes me incredibly sad every time I hear it.
