I was washing my little girl’s hair yesterday and out of the blue I started singing this song.  I haven’t done that since I was a little girl myself.  Growing up, we watched a lot of old movies (which weren’t quite as old back then) and I loved South Pacific.  I still can sing most of the songs from it.  Anyways, after seeing this movie as a little girl I would sing this song every time I washed my hair.  My mother would sing it along with me too.  No one knew though, that when I sang it, I was trying to wash my daddy out of my hair.  Not my stepfather, but my biological father who had left us.  I wanted him outta my hair, I wanted to stop loving him so that I could stop missing him.

My little girl latched onto the snappy tune right away and at I first I felt bad about passing it on but then I realized that is quite a snappy little tune and that her daddy will always be here for her, no matter what.  And that makes me a very happy mommy.