{"id":35,"date":"2011-05-08T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/2011\/05\/08\/cousins\/"},"modified":"2017-04-20T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T18:06:23","slug":"cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/2011\/05\/08\/cousins\/","title":{"rendered":"Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3193\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-35-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/Cousins.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/Cousins.mp3\">http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/Cousins.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/Cousins.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/?powerpress_pinw=35-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/Cousins.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Cousins.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Mom asked if anyone had anything special to share at the family reunion, to prep for it and we&#8217;d present it in whatever form.\u00a0 I was on an airplane on the way to Fargo ND when I got the message, and the first couple lines of this song popped into my head.\u00a0 I quickly recorded it on my iPhone (yes, I was singing to my phone on an airplane, surrounded by other passengers, at 33,000 feet).\u00a0 Took me nearly half a year to get back to it, but here you go.<\/p>\n<p>I accompanied the song with piano, and expected that I would play it that way at the reunion.\u00a0 However, there was no piano handy, so I did it on guitar.\u00a0 Here is how the song was originally conceived.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, one more thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That little bridge section &#8220;We all wish&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; I didn&#8217;t play that part at the reunion.\u00a0 Seemed that folks were a little emotional, and didn&#8217;t really need to push that any further.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92010 Stephen G BrownStarted 12 April on a flight from Dallas to Fargo<br \/>\nFinished 1 September on a flight from Dallas to Baltimore<\/p>\n<p>Well my cousins are my brothers and my sisters too<br \/>\nAll of this began when my mother married you<br \/>\nPeople think it&#8217;s crazy but I tell them that it is true<br \/>\nBut another big surprise is that I am my cousin, too<\/p>\n<p>Now my father is my uncle and you wonder awkwardly<br \/>\nBut he&#8217;s not my mother&#8217;s brother, which would be kind of icky<br \/>\nSo my mother&#8217;s sister&#8217;s widower is husband to my Ma<br \/>\nReminds me of that kid who sings he is his own grandpa<\/p>\n<p>My mother has some nieces and a handful of nephews<br \/>\nThey all call her aunt but they can call her mother too<br \/>\nCause my mother went and did something not many people do<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the way we ended with this great big motley crew<\/p>\n<p>We all wish we had my dad<br \/>\nWe all wish we had aunt pat<br \/>\nBut you know that we&#8217;re all thrilled<br \/>\nThat you&#8217;re together<\/p>\n<p>Uncle carrie granddad red, Aunt orange mum dutts Nan<br \/>\nThe two of you have loved us more than most people can<br \/>\nSo we wish for you the blessings that you have given to us<br \/>\nThank you for another year here at Canonicus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/Cousins.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMom asked if anyone had anything special to share at the family reunion, to prep for it and we&#8217;d present it in whatever form.\u00a0 I was on an airplane on the way to Fargo ND when I got the message, and the first couple lines of this song popped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4qhNY-cousins","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}