Words & Music by Mike Power

About the specific songs he wrote on two albums for children, he wrote, “I don’t want you to use these songs to split your family apart, to give the kids something to do while you do something else. I want to see you throw down your book, your paper, magazine, your worries and your troubles, and to come and join in with the kids.

Let your kids teach you how to act these songs out, these and a thousand other songs. Get the whole fam damily into the fun. Get papa, mama, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, grandma, grandpa, all your neighbors, friends, visitors, and everybody else in on it.

My songs are not to be read like a lesson book nor a text, but to be a key to sort of unlock all of the old bars in you that keep the family apart or the school apart. I’m not trying to lure, to bait, to trick, nor to teach the little fellers how to do because the kids have taught me all I ever will know.

Watch the kids. Do like they do. Act like they act. Yell like they yell. Dance like they dance. Sing like they sing. Work like the kids do. You’ll be plenty healthy, and feel pretty wealthy, and live to be wise, if you put these songs or any earthly song, on your radio, record player, or on your lips, and do like the kids do. I don’t want the kids to be grown up, I wan to see the grownups be kids.”