Lynn Leonti's Blog – January 2011 Archive (5)

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After the success of I'll Always Be Your Mother (mother/son song) and I'll Always Be Your Daughter (father/daughter song), I decided to write a first dance wedding song.  I've been married for 35 years so I needed to go back and think what it would be like to be a bride again, it's been a long time.  I don't remember having a first dance song, father daughter song or a mother son song back then, things have changed.  I wrote A First Dance Wedding Song "Two Little Words" with the bride and…

My mother son wedding song, I'll Always Be Your Mother came to me so easy, I was writing it for my son.  I'll Always Be Your Daughter was a little harder for me to write since I don't have a daughter.   I tried to imagine what my granddaughter and her father, my son, would want to dance to on her wedding day.  The song originally started out from a daughter's point of view than changed to the father's point of view.  I decided to write it as a duet, a father saying the words to his daughter…

The lyrics for my song came to me so easy.  I listened to my heart and wrote down how I felt about my son and his wedding day. I didn't want to go back to his days when he was a boy but to focus on his wedding day and his new bride.  The lyrics come my heart and the songs says it all.

I’ll Always Be Your Mother  "Mother son wedding…

 The article below tells you how my wedding song writing career started.

I’ll Always Be Your Mother is a new mother and son wedding song that I wrote for my son’s wedding in 2006. 

When my son told me he was getting married, I knew I wanted to write a song for him and his new bride.  My intention was to give him something special and personal.  As I started to write the mother song song, it became more obvious to me that it would be a…