beauty of the sound i made it can make anybody sound good so i'm going to take advantage of that and i'm delighted to be here with you and you're going to be to and the first one was i don't need to get religious on you but the first one was was a hymn an old hymn that was updated in one nine hundred sixty s and the second this one is now a song that has the word god in it and it's ok music i mean words of to me music as it transcends the words and whatever you feel it doesn't matter because the music makes you feel good this is called a place in the choir as written by a man named bill stains and it goes like th i tend to vary the texture of my sets a lot so i could go from one that's really loud like that to one it's really soft sound when to do that now and i know that all the all the babies are going to just whisper now i just i have a feeling they will i'm wrong often but i want to sing you a song now about my grandparents just in case there are any grandparents here tonight how many grandparents are here this evening ok any impending grandparents there's one ok momentarily as we speak any moment that means well my grandparents were named jacob an eva and they were they were from the bronx new york and i spent so much time with them as a kid and they were the best times i ever had as a kid so i wrote about them because the neat thing about writing songs about people who are no longer with us is that when i sing the song they are with me and that feels pretty good feel good i saw my grandpa's faves i love the seals a member grandma scorn me really lumpy it was a special order along with scrambled eggs and baked beans known in the he told me about the old days over ice cream across the street in the park how he was for when he got here and as he nodded to another i had tried to imagine my grandpa and for seated smiling lights went on and on and on and on as if it weren't enough they raised my mother and taught her love by example not to mention jello and a fellow and scrambled eggs waterbury called just kidding and it was a show that celebrated childishness and immaturity which i do i celebrate every day my life by being s and so this was the theme of the show and your part is very easy goes like this i'm just kidding just be in a kid and just kid a for i'm richmond to madrid just kidding what a world we're all  all right well now we're going to do some aerobic having of you're wearing spandex ok well norma but we're going to start with the upper body and we're going to move on to lower body in a few minutes but right now we're going to start of the upper body could do a song about the inventor of upper body aerobics and that person was two months old because it's at two months old that a baby starts needing to assert themselves and the way they do that is they go like th all of a sudden two months comes and they go and for the first two months they've been pretty quiet pretty still my son was a great example of that he's now twenty eight years old but when he turned two months old on his two month birthday came running downstairs said that maisie look what i can do and he went like this so i wrote a song about him since he was the first fated ever do that and it's called flail away and there's choreography involved and your part is for a way way way way  so this is going to be the lower body and the way this works is you can have to listen very carefully for words that start with a b letter b second letter of the alphabet b when you hear a word that starts with a big you're going to stand out you might want to sit on that bench it's going to be a lot easier for you to play this game or you have a bad back never mind  once upon a time there was a boy named bill you were talking weren't you during the instructions a lot of disasters a lot of climate generated disasters hurricanes tornadoes floods remember irene and there was sandy and  but there was one that i wrote a song about and it was a long time ago one nine hundred ninety two can't believe that it's been twenty two years now but in one thousand nine hundred two i think richmond was probably affected by the of ice jammed up and the river did what a beaver dam does and it flooded the city in montpelier particularly so i went and visited montpelier and i saw everybody running around with vacuum cleaners and with insulation and water pumps and helping each other out and i thought that was pretty cool so i wrote him a song called you can't keep a good town down now going to test your range i'm going to do another quiet one now see if you can handle it this is worth a third of your final grade i have a daughter two daughters at home and a son to mention my son my eldest daughter is twenty six but when she was about three she had a hard time going to sleep at night and so i wanted to write her a song that would make her feel more comfortable about going to sleep and safe also now her name is ma ok it's now time for you to perform again don't worry not to stand up and sit down or anything you just have to or you have to do is really say four letters of the alphabet actually three three different letters a song about a dog anybody have a dog at home ok nothing better than a dog and so i sing to this group called circus marcus you've heard of the circus marcus go to greensboro every june and i sing to them before they start touring before they go around new england to new york state and so one year i went up there and i met this dog and i fell in love with this dog and was a pit bull terrier beautiful little thing the only people terry i've ever actually fallen in love with and her name was lola she was adorable and i i heard her maybe to a new low i don't know but lolo was the pit bull terrier who was a stray there and she was rescued by the circus people couple of people work for circus markets and they brought her here and they fatter and they loved her and they trained her to be in the service so she became a circus dog so then i saw her perform and that's it i had to write her a song so this is about lola the pit bull terrier is called i think i'm going to sing you a song i want to do three songs without breathing well not without stopping their paramedic here i hope good but this is no these are the first three kids songs ever written way back millions of years ago they found the words on the walls of caves and yeah and it was so long ago that there was only one two so they all had to be in the same time there was no choice so i need your help here was so funny ok but anyway this is a song about something that everyone hopefully will learn how to do if they don't already and it's something that is an amazing accomplishment for every human being and it's something i'm i'm just trying to i want you to tell me what you think this is it's something that changes your life when you learn how to do it and not riding a bike walking helps too but this is even more important than walking and it has to do with you use your eyes to do it to watch c n n but you can't you can't do this unless you can see except you can you can use braille if you can see it's called reading remember that there used to be these things called books remember books well i love books and this is a song about learning to read because it's the most amazing thing that you'll ever learn how to do and i work with grownups who are learning to read to some of them never learned and are learning and it's amazing how it changes your changes the way you stand and the way you hold yourself up and the way your eyes sparkle and just man so i decided to write this song about learning to read and about the power that you feel when you learn to read and my son my twenty eight year old son wrote part of this song because i asked him when i was writing this song do you remember what it felt like when you learned how to read and he said i felt like i was a part of the world so that's part of the song is called the power of the word here to talk about a magical fact i tell you how i got the power to be exact it took a little training but to my surprise there it was music to my eye of the power of the word and i'm a part of the world in fact and the power of the word  my brain and so i'm in control oh so i got to how i was kind of confused sorry looking scribble gave me a headache and blew people kept reading to me shown the way suddenly i'm excited to say i got the power of the word what i up want to come up where you have no choice now i think we should have both you and your dad come  i'd like to thank the round church for having me and i did mention that the holiday season is coming up which reminds me that i do have some gifts for you to get and the holiday season i have my happen and everyone here at this amazing building for making this amazing don't forget to donate to the church while you're here before you leave that would really behoove you to put a little something in their basket because you got to keep this as beautiful as it is so i'm going to sing you tim asked me to sing it with this one dirty song tonight so i'm going to do it now and it's called can rock and roll around in the mud pie alamo all covered by sundown i'm a day crawler normal kids go for the g i joe games i never went for green then