The Swing

"How would you like to go up in a swing...up in the air so blue...oooh I do think it's the pleasanest thing ever a child can do...." ...and the song goes on.

This song reminds me of my three girls...all three of them were charmed, calmed and eventually put to sleep by this unassuming kiddie song. Today, even as they wouldn't admit and recognize the song....to me it will be forever etched in my heart.....the song reminds me the joy and fulfillment only a mother can understand.....brings me to a very distant past ... softly humming and cuddling my darling babies to dreamland of peaceful sleep.....

.."up in the air and over the walls,
till I can see so wide,
rivers and trees and cattle and and all,
over the countryside,

til I looked down on the garden green,
down on the roof so brown.......
up in the air I go flying again,
up in the air and down...."