Songs:Daughters Of China (86983)
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Stick with me on this one. The story below really does relate to this song.
When I began work on this album I had been out of music for nearly fifteen years and my connections to fellow musicians were pretty thin. Getting folks lined up to help out was going to be a bit of a struggle.
Just after I began the initial recording of my tracks I received a college alumni newsletter which contained an article about an old friend of mine, Tom Draughon. He had just released an album of children’s songs. We had played together a bit back in college and I had always been in awe of his talents. It had also been twenty or so years since we last spoke. I took a chance and sent Tom an e-mail to congratulate him on his new release and see if he might be available to help with my project. True to form Tom said, “sure, when do we start?”
We had a lot to catch up on now that we had made contact so we started exchanging the typical “what’s been going on in your life?” e-mails. I thought I had some really big news when I told him that we were just about to head over to China to bring our daughter home. What could possibly top that? Tom writes back that he was glad to hear the news. And then informed me that his family had done the same thing just a few years before. What were the odds of both of us having daughters from China? Apparently they were 100%
We went over to China in November 2001 and brought Marit home to Texas. What an amazing journey that was in so many ways. While we were there I wrote the words to Daughters of China while watching Marit nap in our hotel room at the White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou. It hosts hundreds of adoptive families each year and is affectionately known as the White Stork within the China adoption community.
When we got back home I had yet to compose the music for the song but that eventually came to me in, of all places, an airport concourse during one of my business trips. When this project began I had no intentions of putting Daughters of China on the CD since it had yet to be written. But since I had finished it before production was complete we decided to put it on there. Of course I had to get Tom in on it.
Somewhat later Steve Hartz, the project guru, informed me that his brother’s family was in the process of adopting a daughter from China. The process has now been completed and Steve is an uncle to a baby girl from China. Now what are the odds that three of the people working on this album would be so closely tied to Chinese adoptions? Again, apparently 100%
It is now December 2003 and we have just returned from another amazing journey to China. Our second daughter is now home and her name is Mattie Anne.
So in the very small group working on this project we have four little girls from China who are family to three of us. Many of the others working on this project have close friends who have also adopted or are in the process of adopting children from China. It is truly a wonderful way to grow a family.
If you would like information on international adoption and China adoptions in particular, below there are links to several organizations who can help you learn more about it and help you decide if international adoption would be right for your family.
All writer’s royalties for the song “Daughters of China” will be forwarded to Holt International Children’s Services to help fund their efforts in bringing children home to their forever families here in the US and providing quality foster care for them while they wait.
Lyrics
There’s an unseen tie that binds them
A red thread that will not break.
They are woven in a tapestry
It took five thousand years to make.
Their eyes are wide with wonder
Tiny hands reach out to touch
The faces of the families
Who have wanted them so much.
The daughters of China now fly across the seas,
Off to unseen places and possibilities.
They are gifts to those who cherish them
By those who just could not.
Acts of hope and faith and love
That we never will forget.
They were given up for reasons
That most will never know.
Now they are daughters to the families
Who have come to take them home.
And someday they’ll too be mothers
And have children and a home.
Thread by thread they will tie the knots
To weave new tapestries all their own.
The daughters of China now fly across the seas,
Off to unseen places and possibilities.
They are gifts to those who cherish them
By those who just could not.
Acts of hope and faith and love
That we never will forget.
Listener comments about Daughters Of China (86983)
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