6 October 2012
While I'm here, you should know that I write songs. I write a lot of songs, and they all have stories, and I am going to share one now. I wrote it about a year and a half ago. It's about a six year old girl I met volunteering at a day care in West End Louisville, Kentucky. Over the course of a few day's work there we got to know each other pretty well. She started calling me Daddy. I didn't know what to think of that, but I never said anything about it. I'd read Dr. Seuss to her and she'd read Berenstein Bears to me. They were good times. She blew me away with her happiness. She was always so happy. Her family struggled to get by with one meal a day and she just smiled and giggled like none of it mattered. And I think that she was right.
This Little Girl
There's this little girl Her entire world is full of happiness and love and good Through young eyes disguising life's awful evils Like I wish I could
This little girl She opened her world to me Took me places, showed me things Showed me what it means to be innocent and free
There's this innocent girl Her tiny little world just got a whole lot bigger Just by driving her to the city in this land of liberty Where the homeless shake and shiver
This little girl Lives in a bleak world that can hardly dare to dream But an act of kindness, a single smile And hearts like hers will begin to sing
She doesn't have it all But she sure has enough Keep that smile on your face, girl I know times are tough You're a little piece of hope I can't bear to lose We're here for you
She has this smile The freest in the world And she shares it with others This little girl
She shared it with my friends This sense of pure glee I ask you now to take it In yourself through me And pass it on to everyone All the life you can see Cause we're gonna change the world With that little hero to be We're gonna change the world You, this little girl and me
An Old Song. • Opuss № I