<p>Yeah, sorry I didn’t get in on this</p>
<p>Cat Stevens Oh Very Young
Phish Ya Mar
Grateful Dead Eyes of the World
Allman Brothers Jessica (can’t think of any particular relevance, it’s just such a great tune)
Traffic Can’t Find My Way Home</p>
<p>This one might be more for the parents…but okay for the child to hear too!</p>
<p>Hardest Part of Love</p>
<p>from “Children of Eden”</p>
<p>NOAH
Oh father please don’t make me choose
Either way it’s more than I can bear to lose</p>
<p>Oh this son of mine I love so well
And all the toil it takes
I’d give to him a garden and keep clear of snakes
But the one thing he most treasures is to make his own mistakes ohhh
He goes charging on the cliffs of life
A reckless mountaineer
I could help him not to stumble
I could warn him what to fear
I could shout until I’m breathless
And he’d still refuse to hear ohhh</p>
<p>But you cannot close the acorn
Once the oak begins to grow
And you cannot close your heart
To what it fears and needs to know
That the hardest part of love
Is the letting go</p>
<p>As a child I found a sparrow
Who had fallen form the nest
And I nursed him back to health till he was stronger than the rest
But when I tried to hold it
It would peck and scratch my chest
Till I let it go
And I watched it fly away from me
With it’s brightened self resolve
And part of me was cursing I had helped it grow so strong
And I feared it might go hungery and I feared it might go wrong ohhh</p>
<p>But I could not close the acorn
Once the oak began to grow
And I cannot close my heart
To what it fears and needs to know
That the hardest part of love</p>
<p>FATHER
Is the letting go</p>
<p>NOAH
Is the letting go</p>
<p>FATHER
And it’s only in Eden grows a rose without a thorn
And your children start to leave you
On the day that they were born
They will leave you there to cheer for them
They will leave you there to mourn ever so
Like an ark on uncharted seas their lives will be tossed
And the deeper is your love for them
The crueler is the cost
And just when they start to find themselves
Is when you fear they’re lost ohhh</p>
<p>NOAH and FATHER
But you cannot close the acorn
Once the oak begins to grow
And you cannot close your heart
To what it fears and needs to know</p>
<p>NOAH
That the hardest part of love</p>
<p>FATHER
And the rarest part of love</p>
<p>NOAH and FATHER
And the truest is part of love
Is the letting go</p>
<p>kjofkw–OT, but isn’t Children of Eden a lovely show? Our high school put it on a couple years ago, and everyone (including me) said, “Huh, what’s that?” But it was absolutely wonderful. it turned out to be one of the best HS shows I have ever seen.</p>
<p>-Sheryl Crow: Everyday Is a Winding Road
-dunno the artist, it’s in Forrest Gump: “To Every Season (Turn, Turn, Turn)”
-Beatles: I Get By With a Little Help, Here Comes the Sun, Hard Days’ Night, Hey Jude
-Tom Petty: American Girl (for girls), Apartment Song, Runnin’ Down a Dream
-Anything Rolling Stones
-Alanis Morrisette: Crazy
-Liz Phair: Extraordinary
-Carbon Leaf: What About Everything
-The Who (who? The Who! who?..sorry, inside joke with the dad): Teeanage Wasteland, but it’s really Baba O’Rielly, Who Are You
-Fleetwood Mac: The Chain
-anything Jimmy Buffet (it’s just fun)
-Cars: Let the Good Times Roll
-Smashing Pumpkins: Today</p>
<p>Letting Go - Suzy Boggus</p>
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<p>Kids!</p>
<p>(Seriously, great suggestion. Authorship = Pete Seeger, adapting Ecclesiastes. Best known version = The Byrds. That was probably the one in Forrest Gump.)</p>
<p>Ahhhh. For some reason I thought it was The Animals…I guess I needed to get a tad more specific for which animal(s) =P</p>
<p>PS- that soundtrack is one of my favorite soundtracks, ever. I love the music that came out of the Vietnam War (that and my dad used to be a DJ way back when so he knows an incredible amount about music from 50s-70s, and owns just about all of it =P) so that’s why most of my suggestions were from that era.</p>
<p>The Band-Life is a Carnival
Bob Marley-Don’t Worry
Jackson Browne-These Days
Doctor My Eyes
Rock Me on the Water
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
moe.-Mexico
Phish-Gotta Jibboo
Divided Sky
Guy Clark-Old Friends</p>
<p>Speaking of “Hallelujah Chorus”…
How about Alleluja from Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate…
Especially the version by Sarah Brightman (my favorite).
Here are the lyrics in case you’re interested:</p>
<p>Alleluja, alleluja
Alleluja, alleluja
Alleluja, alleluja
Alleluja, alleluja</p>
<p>Alleluja
Alleluja</p>
<p>Alleluja, alleluja</p>
<p>Alleluja, alleluja
Allelujaaaaaaaaa, alleluja
Alleluja, alleluja</p>
<p>Alleluja, allelujaaaaaaaaa
Alleluja, alleluja, alleluja</p>
<p>Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaalleluja</p>
<p>Alleluja, alleluja</p>
<p>Alleluja, alleluja, alleluja
Alleluja, alleluja, alleluja, alleluja</p>