Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: You say you found yesterday the saddest song in the
Speaker 2: world is it? Andy by Donnie Parton. I defy any
Speaker 2: human being not to start balling their eyes out during that.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard that song, but I'm afraid this song
Speaker 2: that I suddenly heard out of nowhere yesterday will throw
Speaker 2: shade all over that for sure. Patsy, are you familiar
Speaker 2: with the Abba song slipping through my fingers?
Speaker 1: Ah, I don't even. I can't. With the daughter growing up,
Speaker 1: I can't even. I can't even hear it.
Speaker 2: Well, I wish i'd spoken to you yesterday before my
Speaker 2: daughter's graduation, so I think I told you yes. So
Speaker 2: it was my seventeen year old daughter. She's s in
Speaker 2: the last few weeks of year twelve and it was
Speaker 2: a graduation yesterday, so already a very emotional day with us.
Speaker 2: Was my twenty year old daughter two years ago we
Speaker 2: saw her graduating. She's now left home. She's second year
Speaker 2: at University of Melbourne, so already a lot going on.
Speaker 2: This is our last kid going through the school system,
Speaker 2: so a very big day in my family, A lot
Speaker 2: of big emotions to my seventeen year old daughter Lois.
Speaker 3: It was her big graduation and I.
Speaker 2: Knew that she was going to be singing at it,
Speaker 2: which is an amazing on her, and so I was
Speaker 2: already just really excited looking forward to seeing my daughter,
Speaker 2: saying I love hearing a sing and then just before
Speaker 2: I said, oh, by the way, you haven't actually told
Speaker 2: me what is a song you're singing? And I just
Speaker 2: thought it would be a nice up one while they
Speaker 2: played this video, and she goes, oh, it's an Abba
Speaker 2: song slipping through my fingers, and I didn't think that
Speaker 2: I needed to be aware of.
Speaker 3: What it was. I thought, this is being us up
Speaker 3: one for the mums and dads, and a song.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a copy Fernando something like that. Patsy,
Speaker 2: I've never heard this Abba song, so pats imagine then
Speaker 2: when I see my daughter, I'm already bit emotional, like, oh, great,
Speaker 2: she's going to sing, And then I hear the saddest
Speaker 2: song in the world, Patsy.
Speaker 3: It's about a girl leaving home.
Speaker 1: I know she's a young woman now and she doesn't
Speaker 1: need her mummy or daddy, and I when I hear it,
Speaker 1: don't worry. I've got a lump in my throat as
Speaker 1: you're talking about it.
Speaker 2: But perhaps imagine me sat there right so my wife
Speaker 2: doesn't isn't really listening to a song.
Speaker 3: She's filming, un't aught to doing it. She's like looking
Speaker 3: at me.
Speaker 2: She's surprised, startled by the fact I'm shaking, crying the
Speaker 2: limits the opening line. School school bag in hand. She
Speaker 2: leaves home in the early morning, waving goodbye with an
Speaker 2: absent minded smile. I watched her go with a surge
Speaker 2: of that well known sadness. I have to sit down
Speaker 2: for a while, and I think you've got to be
Speaker 2: kidding me. Why can't they just do a nice upsong
Speaker 2: that feeling I'm losing her forever?
Speaker 3: Have I listen to this? This is your daughter singing
Speaker 3: it to you at a graduation hand She leaves home.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry this was too much for her yesterday.
Speaker 2: There should have been a warning. I'm sitting there like
Speaker 2: my I almost want to put my fingers in my ears.
Speaker 3: A watch with a such a.
Speaker 2: Teacher should have and said, hey, listen, this is what
Speaker 2: the song's about.
Speaker 3: Get ready.
Speaker 2: And my daughter knew where my wife and I were,
Speaker 2: so she's looking her ass singing it to us, and
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, oh my, does she know the hour in
Speaker 2: the song? Slipping through my fingers all the time. I
Speaker 2: tried to capture every minute, the feeling in it, slipping
Speaker 2: fingers through my all the time. Then two other kids,
Speaker 2: two other girls start singing, her doing the chorus, somethinking
Speaker 2: I am done.
Speaker 3: My wife is still feeling going. She's singing so well.
Speaker 2: I'm like, when you play us back tomorrow, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be like a double PRIs punch to the heart. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell you now, Jackie Boy, in sixteen years time,
Speaker 2: call me, it'd be Gordy's graduation, and would sit down
Speaker 2: and have a chat.
Speaker 3: It's a moment.
Speaker 2: Patsy in five years time, call me this time in October.
Speaker 2: We'll have a chat about it. It's a it's a
Speaker 2: It was a beautiful day. And then so proud, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, so proud. And in the evening we did it
Speaker 2: was a dinner and the music department were the band,
Speaker 2: and they were incredible. So it's like her music coach
Speaker 2: and that she was singing. So they did like a
Speaker 2: covers band, and so we all had a dance in
Speaker 2: the evening as well.
Speaker 3: But I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: Now, I hope I never hear that abasult every again.
Speaker 2: If you go, be careful what you go curious for online,
Speaker 2: you want to go and play it today, just be
Speaker 2: very careful. It's called slipping through my fingers. It was
Speaker 2: too much yesterday, but Christian O'Connell Show podcast