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Molly Song of the Week - Thao & Mirah's 'Eleven'

Part of the ongoing series of 'Molly Songs': a weekly look featuring songs that our children will love, but more importantly parents can enjoy as well. Molly's musical experiences lately have been vast.  She's been totally into the  Tangled  soundtrack after a visit to Florida this summer, hanging out with Ella & Liam.  She defiantly ignores the correct lyrics when signing the songs, but loves to sing them.  At this point, they are her second most frequently sung songs being  K'Naan 's  'Wavin Flag'. She loves Foster the People, but also argues with me over which songs are theirs.  It's as if they can only sing one song?  Also, in her bedroom cd player right now is a rotation of  ROME  from  Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi ,  the Civil Wars , and  Annie Lynch & The Beekeepers . Her favorite video lately has been Mary,Mary by  Jocie Adams. the Newest  Molly Song of the Wee...

Song of the Week - 'Wavin' Flag' by K'Naan as featured on Austin City Limits

I had something else picked out for this week's Song of the Week, but after viewing K'Naan on the Austin City Limits and hearing the version of 'Wavin' Flag', I was moved.  I had to share this song.  I might be a sappy little b sometimes with movies.  Especially the scene in Good Will Hunting where the Ben Affleck character goes to pick up Will and he's not there.  It gets me every time.  However, I'm rarely moved by hearing a song, especially on the very first listen.  As the moment brewed in front of me watching K'Naan, it was definitely a great musical moment that I knew I needed to share. I downloaded the original 'Wavin' Flag' from iTunes, back in 2009.  If I remember it correctly, it was a free song of the week via iTunes.  I liked it right away, and it started getting some heavy play in one of my best of play lists.  The lyrics for the original version are somewhat uplifting, but I didn't really get the reference of how he would ...