Future music critics

My most recent favourite album is "Yellowjacket" by Canadian folk artist Stephen Fearing (www.stephenfearing.com). We listen to it fairly often at home and in the car, so the girls are getting familiar with the lyrics.

Maya likes to listen to the title track because her favourite colour is yellow and she figures that S.F. must have a yellow jacket. She sings pretty much all the words, blissfully unaware that he is singing about a road trip that he took to Nashville and the caffeine pills ("yellowjackets") that he and his buddy were popping to make the long trip home to Ontario.

The second track is "The Man Who Married Music" - a lament about being tied to his chosen profession and the fact that it takes him away from home a great deal of the time. "I sing them 'cause I have to, and I love them so I do. The man who married music, and the man who married you." Jordan has deemed this song "rather silly", as who can really marry music anyhow? Point well taken.

The third on the CD, "One Flat Tire" brought moans from the back seat one night. Since I had been unable to listen in peace to the first two songs, I was silly enough to ask, "What now?!" "Well," replied Jordan, "it seems like he's just run out of things to write about if he has to write about his flat tire."

"Goodnight Moon" is a lovely closing song and it is taken from the book of the same name, inspired by reading to his granddaughter - "Goodnight moon, goodnight stars, goodnight old broke down cars, I'm goin' away, leavin' soon, goodnight darlin', goodnight moon....". You do realize, of course that is NOT how the book goes. NOT AT ALL and if you ask them, they will recite the book to you as you are trying to listen to this song.

Now, if only I could come up with some witty comments about their beloved Fred Penner (the cat can't come back from the North Pole all by itself...it would freeze!), or Raffi (if you thought I could really clap my crazies out, don't you think I would have done it by now, hmmm??), or Laurie Berkner (who really believes that goldfish have a desire to ride bicycles, or take a shower, or brush their teeth?). But then I would be in trouble for talking over their music - heaven forbid!