Don't feel sorry for me, but my husband and I don't have a song. I want one.

I think it's important to have a song that's special between you and someone you love.

My late father and I have a song, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie." My mother and I have a song, "Que Sera Sera," and I have special songs with each of my children and grandchildren.

My children's special songs are "You Make Me So Happy" for Kacee; "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" for Karah; "Beautiful Boy" for Kevin and Kit; "Que Sera Sera" for Tilleigh, and "I Love You a Bushel and a Peck" for Evie. "Que Sera Sera" is now a special song for two generations of my family.

No matter where you are, how old you are or what frame of mind you're in at the time, when you hear your song, you will feel good.

My father sang our song to me throughout my life, the last time being several days before he died in 2008. I heard the song recently in the film "Pollyanna" starring Hayley Mills, which I was watching with my granddaughters.

The song takes me back to my childhood to my grandparents' house alongside the Tennessee River in Suck Creek. I can see my father and me sitting in a porch swing that hangs from a huge weeping willow tree overlooking the river. The tree's long, feathery branches seem to dance gracefully to my father's melodic voice as he sings, to me, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie."

Wow. It seems like yesterday.

That's what a special song can do.