Morning Serenades

My son has been having some trouble getting up in the morning. So, I did what any father would do. I jumped on his bed, started tickling him and singing at the top of my lungs a song bound to annoy like, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald or The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

But his favorite wake-up call is 500 Miles by The Proclaimers:

But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
When I'm working
Yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man
Who's working hard for you
And when the money
Comes in for the work I'll do
I'll pass every penny
Right along to you
But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
Da da da da
Da da da da
Da da da dum di dee dum
Di dee dum di dee dum
Da da
Da da da da
Da da da da
Da da da dum di dee dum
Di dee dum di dee dum
Da da

Fortunately, my singing is so off-key he doesn’t realize I’m promising him every penny – not that he doesn’t get most of it already. Despite my inability to carry the tune he insists on every single “Da da da da!”

He may be up, but by then I’m usually exhausted.