I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing

Ben loves to sing. I may have mentioned that before, but in particular, I'm thinking about evening devotions. We usually try to read out of his Goodnight Bible before heading to bed. It's got about 40 short (2 page) Bible stories. When we're finished we pray and sing a song or two. Lately Ben has wanted to sing songs about the story.

Sometimes there is no song about the story. For example, the Good Samaritan. We don't know any songs about the Good Samaritan, but Ben insists on making something up and we follow along as best we can.The other night, we read about David and Goliath. Of course Ben wanted to sing about them and I searched my brain for a David and Goliath song. I remembered one that I used to sing when I was Ben's age or a little older and got most of the words, but it just wasn't perfect. Then I remembered an old Bill Gaither Trio kids record. I got it out and put it on the record player. It had the song I was thinking about, called "Only a Boy Named David", but it was in a medley, so we heard some other old songs too. Ben just loved it and asked Mindy to play it over and over the next day. It included songs like "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego", as well as other old Sunday School songs.

The next weekend we made a quick stop at the store on the way home from somewhere and Ben and I went in. The store was nearly empty, so I let Ben roam a little bit in front and behind me as we went to get our 2 or 3 items. He was having a ball, running up and down the aisles singing the Cheeseburger song from VeggieTales. A ballad by a gourd who is longing for a cheeseburger. "Cause your his cheeseburger, his yummy cheeseburger, he'll wait for you... Oh he'll be back for you!" Over and over and over.

A little while later he switched to: "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony!" Of course the tune was great, right up until the word harmony. Cracked me up. Just singing and livin' it up.