The Leaf Song

A few days ago we were heading out on some routine errands.

London hopped into the car with two pieces of rolled up construction paper in her hand.

“Mom, do you ever like to write songs?” she asked me.

“Sure,” I told her.  “That’s fun to do.  Do you make up songs too?”

London admitted that she did and added, “I make up new words to tunes I have already heard and they mostly sound like this” and then she hummed a melody.

She pushed her orange construction papers to me.  “This one I made up to sound like this.”  And she sung it for me.  London said she wrote this particular song to a leaf.

It’s my new favorite song.

Written by my new favorite song writer.

In case you have a hard time interpreting a few words, the entire lyrics are as follows:

“Come to me, little leaf.

I won’t hurt you like I did to the others.”