Sam's (Current) Favorite Song:

Ragged Wood By: Fleet Foxes

Whoa-oh-oh

Come down from the mountain, you have been gone too long

The spring is upon us, follow my only song

Settle down with me by the fire of my yearning

You should come back home, back on your own now

The world is alive now, in and outside our home

You run through the forest, settle before the sun

Darling, I can barely remember you beside me

You should come back home, back on your own now

And even in the light, when the woman of the woods came by

To give to you the word of the old man

In the morning tide when the sparrow and the seagull fly

And Johnathan and Evelyn get tired

Lie to me if you will at the top of Beringer Hill

Tell me anything you want, any old lie will do

Call me back to you

Back to you

Sam begs for this song from the chair of his backseat vista each and every time we get in the car, "I want to hear the whoa-oh-oh song!" His favorite line to sing (besides "whoa-oh-oh") is "Come back home!" which he croons in his signature deep voice that melts both our hearts and pastes a grin across my face so large it sometimes hurts my cheeks. He turns, in true kid form, certain words he doesn't understand, into other words, such as "my yearning" to "meowing" which, let's face it, might work just as well. He has always had, but has recently discovered such a love for music, but no ordinary tunes, much like his parents, and has taken to singing to us and memorizing words unlike I ever imagined a 3 1/2 year old could. Angels, I tell you, angels.

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