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This song was written for a class of Dutch kids in their last year of primary school. It was just before the American elections of 2016. I’d handed them a small questionnaire about their feelings at that particular time in life, intending to give them …
Remember when you started school and wondered some days where you’d landed and how you were going to survive it? This is a pop-song about just that and it gives kids the chance to sing about this new life of theirs.
How does a mum help her daughter through this strangely gendered world of ours, when we all struggle to navigate the fog? Logic dictates that things aren’t right…and sometimes that’s all we have to go on. Oh…and courage, respect, tolerance and love.
This is such a great song to sing and would sound lovely with lots of kid’s voices. I can guarantee there wouldn’t be a dry eye in the house at the parent’s concert! Some days we just don’t understand the world and some days we …