When I was a little girl I actually believed that my father WAS Paul Simon and Billy Joel.
After all, didn't he write those songs that he sang to me?
It was a bit of a shock when I realized that he hadn't written them...someone else had.
This was my favorite:
Except, of course, he changed the words to be "little sleepy girl" - so I was certain he had written it.
Now I sing this song to my own children.
For the last ten years.
For the first time...just this past week, David said to me: "Hey, mom, is that a song that you made up or one that someone else wrote?"
No, David, I didn't write it. A man named Paul Simon wrote it.
And the spell was broken.
But he didn't seem to mind.
After all, didn't he write those songs that he sang to me?
It was a bit of a shock when I realized that he hadn't written them...someone else had.
This was my favorite:
Except, of course, he changed the words to be "little sleepy girl" - so I was certain he had written it.
Now I sing this song to my own children.
For the last ten years.
For the first time...just this past week, David said to me: "Hey, mom, is that a song that you made up or one that someone else wrote?"
No, David, I didn't write it. A man named Paul Simon wrote it.
And the spell was broken.
But he didn't seem to mind.
That reminds me of the time that I learned that the story my dad told us when we were little about how we got the mark right above our upper lip was actually Talmudic midrash...
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