I heard someone singing “The Teddy Bears Picnic” today, which is a really old song I loved as a kid. It set me to wondering what the first song I ever learned was. Probably some nursery rhyme. I have a particular fondness for the one that goes “4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie.” Perhaps that was the first song I heard or learned form my mother. Is it even possible to recall the first song you ever learned?
Please use the open space below to share your first 50 words on the topic “the first song.”
I remember it clearly,
the first song I ever heard on TV,
a tiny screen in a large wood cabinet,
given to us by our uncle,
early 1950’s winter
and a dancing snowflake
on the screen,
singing “here comes Suzi Snowflake,”
and it was my song, I knew,
because my name was Susie.
The first song that comes to the mind is “Our Father ….” . Till date , when something goes seriously wrong . There are dire straits in plain sight , the song that comes to my mind is Our Father . There must have been several hymns I must have learnt and memorised through the years , but what comes from the gut or heart , without even thinking, is Our father .
Maybe I must be pronouncing it all wrong , maybe it is a mistake , but it has pulled me out of several sticky situations in the past , and for that I am grateful to the song . Wait , can it be even called a song ? Or is it technically a hymn ?