A hero is said to be someone who is brave for 5 minutes longer than everyone else. Some heroes have to be brave for weeks, or months, or for an entire deployment.
Jamie O'Neal is part of the "Australian Invasion" of Country Music, with a bunch of #1 hits in the last decade. The Oz country music scene is one of the most active outside of North America, and not only does she write some great songs, but that Sheila can sing, fair dinkum.
Somebody's Hero (Songwriters: Jamie O'Neal, Shaye Smith, Ed Hill):
She's never pulled anyone from a burning building
She's never rocked Central Park to a half a million fans, screaming out her name
She's never hit a shot to win the game
She's never left her footprints on the moon
She's never made a solo hot air balloon ride, around the world,
No, she's just your everyday average girl (but)
She's somebody's hero
A hero to her baby with a skinned up knee
A little kiss is all she needs
The keeper of the cheerios
The voice that brings Snow White to life
Bedtime stories every night
And that smile lets her know
She's somebody's hero
oh oh
She didn't get a check every week like a nine-to fiver
But she's been a waiter, and a cook and a taxi driver
For twenty years, there at home, until the day her girl was grown
Giving all her love to her was her life's ambition
But now her baby's movin' on, and she'll soon be missin' her
But not today, those are tears of joy runnin' down her face
She's somebody's hero
A hero to her daughter in her wedding dress
She gave her wings to leave the nest
It hurts to let her baby go down the aisle she walks right by
Looks back into her mother's eyes
And that smile lets her know oh oh oh
She's somebody's hero
Thirty years have flown right past
Her daughters' starin' at all the photographs
Of her mother, and she wishes she could be like that
Oh, but she already is
She's somebody's hero
A hero to her mother in a rockin' chair
She runs a brush through her silver hair
The envy of the nursing home
She drops by every afternoon
Feeds her mother with a spoon
And that smile lets her know oh oh
Her mother's smile lets her know oh oh
She's somebody's hero
HossBoss does it for me.
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My Mom was. She was Deputy Sheriff and could deal with all kinds of things there, then come home, put on heels and a dress for my Dad, make him a martini and feed him dinner and then make cookies into the wee hours for some school thing we kids told her about at 8 p.m.
ReplyDeleteShe was Mrs. Cleaver except she was packing heat.
That's one of my wife's favorite songs too...and one of mine, because I think it applies to her, for some of the same reasons you think it applies to Mrs. Borepatch.
ReplyDeleteWhen I used to work for the Shipyard, I used to go away for 6 weeks or so ever 12-18 months, and then near the end, I went on a 7 month off station 2500 miles away. While I was gone, she took great care of my kids, and made progress on her nursing school, including starting a job and doing the 'single working parent' thing for 4 months when one of my business trips ran WAY long.
Mrs. O'Neil is one of those ones that makes me question who picks who gets to succeed in country music. As you said, a fair dinkum singer, and a striking young lady to boot.
I nominate my wife, the fair Susan.
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