Mother Your Son Song Download
Raymond Freedman
"The most special and meaningful gift we have ever received for our daughter. No matter what kind of day we've had, it re-centers us and reminds us in a beautiful way of how dearly loved she is and what our prayer is for her life."
-MISSY
Whether you prefer a Keepsake Song (studio recording with music) or an Acapella Song (sung acapella without music), your child's Custom Song will be a one-of-a-kind treasure that reminds them how much they're loved.
After you order, we'll email you a link with a few questions to get to know your child - the adorable way they say "strawbabies," that scrunchy nose smile that melts your heart, and the hopes and dreams you have for their life.
You'll receive a digital MP3 of your song in 1-3 weeks,* depending on your song choice. If you ordered a Keepsake Song (studio recording with music), you'll receive an Acapella "preview" of your song before it gets recorded in the studio.
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Can you imagine your favorite artist never existing? Favorite song? I can honestly say that the basement walls of my childhood home would never have gotten sanded and painted that one high school summer if not for Sting. But I am not so naive to think that Sting proceeded to embark on an artist career because he saw a musical space in the market and intended to fill it. Marketing departments do that. Artists create and promote enough so that the market makes space for their art.
Combining two songs for the Mother-Son Dance make sense if you have a few songs to choose from. This is a great way to make your dance unique to you. You can start off the dance ith the more traditional style and then liven up the moment with a fun, uncommon selection or rendition.
I know several moms who do not wish to sing about their life circumstances and who have stopped looking for a song. I know plenty more who, despite their trials and pain, search for an old song book or modern-day lyrics online and stretch their vocal cords anyway.
My mom dug deep to always find a song. In fact, two days before she suffered a massive stroke, Mom, drove around to visit friends who could no longer get out because of their own health challenges. Just being with these friends stirred a melody within.
So how are you doing in the song category these days? Do you no longer wish to sing because your heart feels too heavy? Have you lost interest in even finding a song? Or, frankly, lost interest in listening to someone else sing their song or even a song to you? You are not alone.
I was talking with my friend Sandy Byer about aging and legacy, a topic that seems to come up more often these days. We were talking specifically about folk music. For many years Sandy was a singer, songwriter, and storyteller, and I have always found her material as well as her thoughts in the areas of performance to be cogent and perceptive. One topic between us was the many songs that have come down to us all from unknown singers and authors.
I began my folksinging journey with my friend Laurie Ellen Neustadt. Laurie was a soulful and at times heart-rending singer. Passionate, political, and powerful, Laurie and I became best friends and musical partners. She died in 1999, and it was a huge loss to me and to those who knew her.
It was great to hear the story behind this song that I have loved from the first time I heard you sing it. It is not surprising to see how its popularity has traveled beyond your performances. Thanks for sharing this and for adding music to my house.
Stuart,
Your writing is like finding a river in the middle of the desert, or a dappled clearing in the middle of a dense forest. It instantly engages the heart while feeding the intellect. Many, many thanks for the backstory and lots to ponder during these long dark days.
your fan, Brigid
Stuart,
I enjoy knowing the backstory of a song that Mike and I really enjoy.
Listening is a very important skill and gift to those being heard.
Blessed to call you friend and neighbor,
Bernice
This chant is from the Navajo tradition, a people who lived in the area we now know as New Mexico. They suffered centuries of colonization and conquest from Europeans, but unlike many native American tribes, they still live for the most part on their ancestral land.
The Navajo culture is big into ceremonies and rituals. Their performances are usually four days, two days, or one day. Although some chants could be as long as nine days and require dozens of helpers. The most important ceremonies are the ones for treatment of ills, mental and physical. The Navajo are also very big into nature, so almost every act of their life is a ceremony of nature, including their building of the hogan, or the planting of the crops. All the Navajo culture ceremonies are included with songs and prayers.
In the Navajo culture and traditions there are over 24 different Chantway ceremonies performed by singers, and over twelve hundred different sandpainting designs that are available to the medicine men.
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I hope these songs about motherhood / parenthood / life bring you some joy and give you all the feels like they do for me! Being a mom is the absolute best thing ever, and sometimes you just want to listen to some feel good songs that perfectly describe being a mama. Even the hard days! They are all 100% worth it.
In terms of vocal songs, that would have been my mother singing me lullabies. And my father was a great accordionist and a fabulous singer; he and I used to sing in the Armenian church choir in Toronto for years. He was something.
Your parents landed in Egypt after fleeing the Armenian genocide during World War I. Were you aware of what that meant, growing up, that you came from people who had been persecuted? Were there conversations in your house about it, or was it sort of just in the water?
A lot of therapy! [Laughs.] In my late 30s, it became clear to me that I needed to do some emotional growth work, and I was lucky enough to be with one or two very skilled therapists, and they helped me to address many of the challenges that I had. In my early childhood, growing up in a fairly authoritarian family, my parents loved me greatly. But it was at times a coercive love, not exactly a respectful love. And I felt sometimes like a possession. So there was a lot I had to work out.
I have to ask about the controversy with the 17th-century Armenian rug that you posted on Instagram in December, which upset some people because it had swastikas in its pattern. You apologized and deleted the post.
What do you say to people who are frustrated by the limitations there? I know so many young people who feel disappointed and angry, heading into this presidential election, that these are our choices.
She lived in Paris when she was young. Young and free and everything ahead of her. She worked as an au pair for money and sang in nightclubs for fun. It was one of the great times of her life, so much so that, as the years went by, I always felt like she was trying to find that girl again, to remember what an unlimited life felt like, a life I secretly worried I helped to limit.
There are other reasons for the association. My mother was also a singer, and a very talented one. Like Mitchell, she also played piano and guitar. And their appearances are similar enough that watching videos of Joni Mitchell performing occasionally evokes a deep sadness in me.
In 2007 I moved to New Orleans. I was just out of a divorce and emerging from the lowest point of my life when I fell madly in love with that city, moved there on a hunch, and began to write letters to my family about it. My mother understood immediately.
I want you to know that you were right. This is your song. It was always your song. It was written just for you. Not only for that girl you missed, the one you were afraid you lost. For all of you, even when you left.
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