Rise and Shine it's Matzah Ball Time

On March 18th, one week before his 7th birthday, my son Dov decided that he wanted to write a song as a surprise for his mother. He started with the title - "Rise and Shine it's Matzah Ball Time." He then paced around the room thinking up lyrics and had me write them down.

Once he had written three verses and a chorus, he picked up a guitar and started playing the few chords that he knows. He was struggling with the glorified toy we bought him when he was younger. It was supposed to be a step up from a toy, but it is hardly tuneable. When that was difficult, he tried it on Marcia's beautiful Martin guitar. While that one has great sound, it is way too big for Dov. It was a little painful to watch, knowing that we had just bought Dov a proper 3/4 sized guitar for his upcoming birthday, but I could not give it to him without Marcia.

Notwithstanding the impediments, the song was done within 5 minutes. He played it for Marcia that night. He played it a few times over the past week, but got very excited when we talked about putting it on the internet. So we put the Kodak Easyshare camera on the tripod (the video camera is broken) and.... well, here are the results:



Hope you liked it.

Mischa