When Mayberry Mom and Motherhood Uncensored put out a call for a virtual Baby Shower for MotherGooseMouse and her impending baby boy, they asked for posts on raising boys, and boy-oriented song lists for the playlist to end all playlists.
Well, I can't offer any advice or commentary on raising boy children, since I've only got a girl, but Julie? Teach him to cook. 'Cause everyone needs to eat, and women love a man who can cook.
But I loved coming up with some songs for the the song list. I plugged "boy" into the iTunes search window and came up with many songs by The Five Blind Boys and the Beach Boys, Jane Siberry's album "When I Was a Boy" and 22 versions of "The Little Drummer Boy". I whittled it down to a manageable handful:
- Pony Boy (Bruce Springsteen)
- Boy From Tupelo (Emmylou Harris)
- The boy who never cried (Steve Earle)
- Pretty Boy Floyd (Bob Dylan)
- Po' Boy (Bob Dylan)
- The Jones Boy (The Mills Brothers)
- Winin' Boy Blues (Leon Redbone)
- Indian Boy (Paul Pena)
- The Boy In The Bubble (Paul Simon)
- Where the Boys Go (The Rolling Stones)
- Danny Boy (Rufus Wainwright)
- The Only Living Boy In New York (Simon & Garfunkel)
And then I threw in my favorite song about the number three: Three is a Magic Number (Bob Dorough).
Julie, lots of luck and love to you and your baby boy. And, I think you might need a new handle. Mother Goose Mouse only accounts for two of your three children. Maybe MotherGooseMouseMonkey?
11 comments:
Hey, more proof of our cosmic connection. The song I suggested was De La Soul's cover of Three Is the Magic Number.
Excellent advice on teaching him to cook, BTW. (But Kyle will have to do it. Sorry, Julie.)
I love Springsteen's Pony Boy!
Don't forget John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy". My post is up, too. Come check it out.
Yes, teaching him to cook is excellent advice!
I agree that teaching him to cook is vital. However... if you are anything like my mother-in-law, bless her heart, you will only teach your son to make a disgusting concoction of rice, mushroom soup and ground beef. In the microwave. *shudder* Teach him to bake and make desserts instead. The girls will be all over him, especially if he makes cheesecake-stuffed strawberries dipped in dark chocolate.
No worries about the cooking, because KYLE will be the one to teach him! He and I will bake cookies together, because that's the extent of my role in the kitchen.
And that Three is a Magic Number song makes me tear up even when I'm not drunk on hormone cocktail.
Dang, I love that song.
It always make me cry.
Thanks so much for the blast from the past.
I love Jane Siberry. But "Where the Boys Go" by The Stones? Fantastic!
What a great post. Love the tune.
"Boy in the Bubble" is one of my favorites. In fact, I think I'll go give it a listen now.
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