A Voice from the Grave

 The most emotional moment of my entire music project

I’ve been editing over 100 newly digitized files from cassettes of 3 decades of my children’s music

I discovered one tape among my Dad’s things. He died in 1997
My kids recorded 45 minutes of music (songs with piano & guitar) for his 66^th birthday in 1983
They were 7, 10 & 13 at the time.  I have no memory of this.  My voice is nowhere on the recording.

Not only did Dad save the tape from 1983 – 1997, but at the end he recorded his own message to them
and sang 2 songs himself.

Maybe it’s national & world events but one song the children did is haunting to me

This the chorus of “One Tin Soldier” –

Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of Heaven
You can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after
One tin soldier rides away

This is the how the children sounded.  10 year old Karen is playing the guitar.
It’s only 4 minutes long.

One Tin Soldier

This was my Dad’s message

Thanking his grandchildren

If you read this far and listened, thank you