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If you've reached this page, you've been invited - it is a "hidden" page on my website.  Here find the pre-release version of the song "20 Beautiful Children."  This song will be released as a donate-to-download song on either Friday, December 27 or Monday, December 31.  An accompanying video, from a 3-camera shoot of the recording studio (musicians only) and a 4-camera shoot of the theater session (all children, soloists and chorus) will be released to YouTube to promote the project.  Eventually, I hope to make the backing instrumental tracks and sheet music free to download so other groups may perform the song and "pass the hat" for the Sandy Hook victims as well.  Others will be encouraged to make their own video and recording and share it online.  All proceeds from the sale of the song will be given to a Newtown charity to be determined.

I am hoping to launch this with a "bang," so it will spread virally and generate a lot of interest in this worthy cause. 

Please contact Dave at 734-673-0307 or [email protected] if you are interested in helping promote this project.  

20 Beautiful Children

Daddy, other kids were talking
About the news on the tv
I don't understand what happened
Can you explain it to me? 

In some place called Connecticut
Something happened with a man
And a gun and lots of kids
In a school that looked like mine

20 beautiful little children
That's what the President called them
Oh, I have so many questions
Oh, I have so many questions

Mother tell me why it happened
Can Jesus give us a reason?
Daddy, why is the President weeping?
Daddy, what's that in your eye?
    
Who will get their Christmas presents?
Will their stockings still be filled? 
Do you think they'll go to heaven?
What does it mean to be killed?

Did you know these things have happened
In other schools across the nation?
How long until it happens 
To the kids at my school? 

So I listened to the questions 
Of my children as they spoke
And I wondered about the parents 
Of the children who were gone

And I thought about their children
About the ones who still remain
And I thought about their questions
And I thought about their questions

Where's my sister why's she missing
Who will sleep in my brother's bed
Mommy have you eaten?
Is there anything I could have said? 

Did I forget to say I love you?
Remember how we fought this morning?
Why did Jesus have to take him?
Will I ever see him again? 

Daddy, why did this have to happen? 
Why did this man have a gun?
Daddy, who will stop all the bad men
From hurting everyone? 

Can't we just take away the bullets?
Can't we just stop making the guns? 
Why can't we take away the bullets?
Why cant we just stop making the guns?

For those 20 beautiful children
For those 20 beautiful children
For those 20 beautiful children
If not for those 20 beautiful children,
Then who?

Sunday, December 23rd

Wednesday, December 26th