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A Song of Joy and Tacos

Now and again something wonderful happens to me, and once in a while I am paying attention enough to recognize it.  When I am really paying attention, I will attribute that thing as a yet another validation that my Heavenly Father loves me.

Today was one of those days. Something really good happened, and I am grateful. To show my gratitude, I came straight home and wrote a new verse to the classic children’s hymn, “My Heavenly Father Loves Me“. (Or as we called it when I was a kid “Whenever I hear the Song of a Bird.”)

Original 1st Verse:

Whenever I hear the song of a bird,

or look at the blue, blue sky,
Whenever I feel the rain on my face,
or the wind as it rushes by.
Whenever I touch a velvet rose,
or walk by our lilac tree,
I’m glad that I live in this beautiful world,
Heavenly Father created for me.

New Verse:

Today was a day that I could tell,
How wonderful things sometimes are,
I got the new taco from Taco Bell,
and ate it right there in the car
The shell is Doritos -the Nacho Cheese
they come in a new paper sleeve
You can ask for tomatoes and some sour cream,
but they’ll charge you and call it Supreme.

This is part of my goal to show more gratitude.  I hope it hasn’t been too emotional for you.

Here is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir single the old version, it’s pretty good, but they don’t mention Taco Bell at all. I’ll email the new one and see what they can do.


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  1. I have no doubt you’d get along well with my 18 year old son. Although I believe, often, that he’s 18 going on 14, he’s very entertaining, creative and charismatic. Are you wondering if you’ve been insulted or complimented? Don’t think too hard, it’s a compliment.

  2. Everyone’s missing the point! Don’t send it to Taco Bell. Sing it in Primary. And hand out tacos. You’d have to beat Primary volunteers off with a stick! Something that has never happened in the whole history of the church.

  3. Haha! Doritos are so addicting. I could become morbidly obese if I were locked in a Dorito facroty. I would be like a goldfish and eat until I verily exploded. BLAM!

  4. I wouldn’t hold my breath on the MoTab thing. I sent in what I thought were rather poignant lyrics lauding my love of penguin flannel pajamas to the tune of “Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree” (I woke up in the morning and what did I see?…), but all I got back was a generic form letter thanking me for my “submission”. It was signed by Lloyd Newell, though, so that was cool.

  5. When I was little my Dad wrote a jingle for Doritos. We sent it in but they rejected it. Maybe you could have better luck than us!

  6. I saw that Dorito taco and wished that I wasn’t on a diet and ordered my Fresco Burrito instead no cheese no sour cream It was a SAD SAD day but I have lost 10 lbs in 2 months so HA

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