Your Song

Most of us celebrate our birthdays by singing a simple song called "Happy Birthday".  I heard another song sung recently by a musical duo in Palm City, Florida. The song is called "Your Song". Their version  was a more soulful rendition than the original and the words and meaning seem clearer to me now.

     "How wonderful life is, now that you're in the world."

Wouldn't these 10 words carry more meaning as we get older?   Wouldn't that piece of cake and blowing out of the candles seem sweeter with this melody preceding your birthday wish? I don't think Elton John would mind making a sentimental switch of his love song to a birthday love song.

   More recently I read this:  

"When a woman in a certain African tribe knows she is pregnant, she goes out into the wilderness with a few friends and together they pray and meditate until they hear the song of the child. They recognize that every soul has its own vibration that expresses its unique flavor and purpose. Then the women attune to the song, they sing it out loud.
Then they return to the tribe and teach it to everyone else. When the child is born, the community gathers and sings the child’s song to him or her.
Later, when the child enters education, the village gathers and chants the child’s song. When the child passes through the initiation to adulthood, the people again come together and sing.
At the time of marriage, the person hears his or her song.
Finally, when the soul is about to pass from this world, the family and friends gather at the person’s bed, just as they did at their birth, and they sing the person to the next life. In the African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child.
If at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village and the people in the community form a circle around them. Then they sing their song to them. The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behaviour is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity.
When you recognize your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another."