<p>All he could think about was I’m too young for this.
Got my whole life ahead.
Hell I’m just a kid myself.
How’m I gonna raise one.</p>
<p>All he could see were his dreams goin’ up in smoke.
So much for ditchin’ this town and hangin’ out on the coast.
Oh well, those plans are long gone.</p>
<p>[Chorus:]
And he said,
There goes my life.
There goes my future, my everything.
Might as well kiss it all good-bye.
There goes my life…</p>
<p>A couple years of up all night and a few thousand diapers later.
That mistake he thought he made covers up the refrigerator.
Oh yeah…he loves that little girl.</p>
<p>Momma’s waiting to tuck her in,
As she fumbles up those stairs.
She smiles back at him dragging that teddy bear.
Sleep tight, blue eyes and bouncin’ curls.</p>
<p>[Chorus:]
He smiles…
There goes my life.
There goes my future, my everything.
I love you, daddy good-night.
There goes my life.</p>
<p>She had that Honda loaded down.
With Abercrombie clothes and 15 pairs of shoes and his American Express.
He checked the oil and slammed the hood, said you’re good to go.
She hugged them both and headed off to the West Coast.</p>
<p>[Chorus:]
And he cried,
There goes my life.
There goes my future, my everything.
I love you.
Baby good-bye.</p>
<p>There goes my life.
There goes my life.
Baby good-bye.</p>
<p>Sufjan Stevens – Chicago (the necessary soundtrack to my similar moment two years ago, for the obvious reasons that (a) it was ubiquitous then anyway, (b) it’s perfectly appropriate, and (c) our destination; but good for any destination)</p>
<p>Alanis Morrisette – One Hand In My Pocket (your daughter may be young enough not to have heard this 200 times)</p>
<p>The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket (girl power!)</p>
<p>Sarge – Fast Girls (grrrl power!)</p>
<p>PuffyAmiYumi – Hi! Hi! PuffyAmiYumi Show! (“Anything is possible!”)</p>
<p>Second “Wide Open Spaces” by the Dixie Chicks and “Forever Young”. My favorite is “One to Know” by Dar Williams. Specially made for the occasion. One written from the kids perspective and hilarious if not inappropriate is “Leave me Alone” by Pink. My sister and I were laughing histerically this weekend listening to it in the car. Thought of my soon to be freshmen younger son.</p>
<p>I loved Dar Williams when she had a sense of humor to go with her sensitivity – “When I Was A Boy”, “As Cool As I Am”, “The Christians And The Pagans”, “Southern California Wants To Be Western New York”. For a few years, she was a big star at our house. The quasi-Buddhist, New Age, successfully analyzed Williams of the past few years is less engaging. (But I was in Soho on Saturday, and hummed “Spring Street” to myself a few times.)</p>
<p>one of the responses made me think that yoiur daughter is coming down to New orleans. I am down here at TUlane and one of my fave NOLA songs is New Orleans by Cowboy Mouth. She may not relate to it now, but she will by the end of the year.
Actually a lot of the Cowboy mouth stuff is about New orleans, they really are a great band!</p>
<p>I love that song from Elizabethtown, btw =)</p>
<p>But, the song that popped immediately into my head was:</p>
<p>Ride of Your Life by John Gregory (it is from the movie What a Girl Wants…heh)</p>
<p>Wishing on a shooting star
But dreams alone won’t get you far
Can’t deny your feelings anymore
The world is waiting right outside your door
What are you waiting for?</p>
<p>Come on, here’s your chance
Don’t let it slip right through your hands
Are you ready for the ride of your life?
Your dreams are riding on the wind
Just reach out and pull them in and
Get ready for the ride of your life
The ride of your life</p>
<p>In your heart, you know what must do
You’ve only got yourself to answer to
Don’t let fear of fallen hold you down
Your spirit’s flying high above the clouds
You’re glory bound</p>
<p>Come on here’s your chance
Don’t let it slip right through your hands
Are you ready, for the ride of your life
Your dreams are riding on the wind
Just reach out and pull them in and
Get ready for the ride of your life</p>
<p>You are on your way no looking back
There’s no future living in the past
You’re free at last yeah
You’re free at last</p>
<p>Come on here’s your chance
Don’t let it slip right through your hands
Are you ready for the ride of your life yea
Your dreams are riding on the wind
Just reach out and pull them in and
Get ready for the ride of your life
Ride of your life</p>
<p>Come on, come on get ready
Yea, yea, yea
Your dreams are riding on the wind
Just reach out and pull them in
Get ready for the ride of your life</p>
<p>Thanks to some wonderful suggestions in this thread and a very patient husband, our musical send-off to our college-bound daughter is complete. In the process it morphed into a two-disc set. I’m copying the playlist below, as promised. Obviously it’s up for grabs, but I wouldn’t recommend copying it outright unless your child, too, is headed to Tulane.</p>
<p>My Opening Farewell; Jackson Browne
Wide Open Spaces; Dixie Chicks
You Learn; Alanis Morissette
Change Your Mind; Sister Hazel
This One’s for the Girls; Martina McBride
I Hope You Dance; Lee Ann Womack
Forever Young; Bob Dylan
Io (This Time Around); Helen Stellar
Winding Road; Bonnie Somerville
Two Lane Highway; Pure Prairie League
Down to New Orleans; Vince Gill
Take Me to the Mardi Gras; Paul Simon
Everest; Ani Difranco
Goodbye to You; Michelle Branch
Unwritten; Natasha Bedingfield
Brass In Pocket; The Pretenders
New Day; Patti LaBelle
Whole New You; Shawn Colvin
Fly Away From Here; Dropline
My Wish; Rascal Flatts
The Circle Game; Joni Mitchell
Reason to Believe; Kelly Willis
Never Die Young; James Taylor
Little Star; Madonna
Happy Girl; Beth Nielsen Chapman
New Orleans Wins the War; Randy Newman
Buffalo Soldier; Bob Marley
Walking to New Orleans; Fats Domino
City of New Orleans; Steve Goodman
Louisiana Lady; New Riders of The Purple Sage
Ready to Run; Dixie Chicks
Straight As The Crow Flies; Kim Richey
Baby Mine; Alison Krauss
The One Who Knows; Dar Williams & Alison Krauss
Ride of Your Life; John Gregory
What a Wonderful World; Keb Mo
Turn Around; Nanci Griffith</p>
<p>(I tried to use tabbing to make it easier to read, but guess the site doesn’t allow that; thus, the semi-colons.)</p>
<p>Is the Nanci Griffith song a version of the old Malvina Reynolds one: “Turn around and you’re tiny, turn around and you’re grown, turn around and you’re a woman [used to be: “young wife”] with babes of your own.”? I can’t hear/sing/think about that one without tearing up a bit. It’s something of a family joke.</p>
<p>You got it, JHS. I don’t think it’s too low a blow, as we are longtime Nanci Griffith fans and she’s heard it many times. I think she’s already prepared to have to dance to it at her wedding. But one step at a time!!</p>
<p>Where are you goin’ my little one, little one?
Where are you goin’ my baby my own?
Turn around and you’re two
Turn around and you’re four
Turn around and you’re a young girl
Going out the door</p>
<p>Chorus
Turn around
Turn around
Turn around and you’re a young girl
Going out of the door</p>
<p>Where are you goin’ my little one, little one?
Little dirndles and petticoats, where have you gone?
Turn around and you’re tiny
Turn around and you’re grown
Turn around and you’re a young wife
With babes of your own</p>
<p>Chorus</p>
<p>Where are you goin’ my little one, little one?
Where are you goin’ my baby my own?</p>
<p>Wasn’t that the soundtrack to a Kodak commercial in the 70’s? I remember the lyric as “and you’re a young man with babes of your own” since the montage of Kodachrome photos was both sons and daughters growing up… made me teary-eyed as a college freshman, I don’t think I could stand it as a mom!</p>
I’m a Dar Williams fan too.</p>