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Thread #69847   Message #1188138
Posted By: YorkshireYankee
18-May-04 - 09:04 PM
Thread Name: Songs about growing up?
Subject: RE: Songs about growing up?
Try Turn Around

A few of its words are about a girl/woman, but it would be easy enough to change them to suit a boy/man...

There's Sunrise Sunset... although the 2nd verse is about a wedding, so not quite so appropriate; maybe just the first verse? Or maybe adapt the 2nd verse a bit to fit a bar mitzvah? Perhaps something like:

He looks so confident and handsome
All that we might have dreamed, and more
Now we can see his own dreams growing, strong and sure

May he have much to give the future
May he know happiness and love
May he be blessèd by the Lord above


Sabbath Prayer (also from Fiddler on the Roof) also seems very apt for the occasion, although it's not about growing up. (It also would need *slight* adjusting to make it appropriate for a young man.)

Good luck!

YY