Can it be from me and my wife?

Yes. Mention both of you in a line, or in the brief, and the song will say it is from you both.

Can I make one for my mother-in-law too?

Yes, each song is its own order; choose Someone else as the relationship and say who she is in your lines.

Can the song use her first name instead of Mom?

Yes. Type her first name if you want it sung, or type Mom and the chorus sings that.

Is a song a strange gift from a son?

Not if the lines are plain and true. Coming from a son, a few honest sentences set to music are often more surprising than anything from a store.

Mother’s Day

Every year you call, say happy Mother's Day, ask about the weather and hang up. This year, say the rest.

A Mother’s Day song from a son, for everything he forgot to say

Most sons call on Mother’s Day, say the usual and hang up. Three honest lines turned into a two-minute song say the rest, and she can play it again whenever she misses you.

Hear the second a name lands

Linda, your love is in the cards you play,

You wrote“She still mails me care packages with her lemon bars.”

The song singsAnd the sweet lemon bars you send my way.

From a real song made here: “Every Thursday with Linda”, for Linda, from what her son typed.

The moment you give it

She starts the usual update about the weather and the neighbors. You ask her to wait. The song brings up the care packages and the hockey mornings, and the update about the neighbors never happens.

Mother's Day, the usual Sunday call

Mom

On speaker

“Before you tell me about the weather, listen to this.”

Start with one memory

Pick a question. The form opens with your first line already started.

A real Mother's Day song from a son

"Every Thursday with Linda" came from three plain facts: nine winters of early hockey practice, lemon bars in the mail, and a grandmother who now teaches card games.

Every Thursday with Linda

for Linda · mom · Mother's Day · Piano ballad

Mom drove me to 6 a.m. hockey practice for nine winters and never missed one. She still mails me care packages with her lemon bars. Now she babysits my daughter every Thursday and teaches her the same card games.

1:55

Ten Octobers with You

for Saoirse · wife · Anniversary · Acoustic pop

We met on a rainy platform in Cork in 2016. She lent me her umbrella and kept it for a year. Every Sunday she sings to the dog, Murphy, while the toast burns. Ten years this October.

1:55

What you get for $12.99

You hear it first, free. You pay once, only if you keep it.

Free preview: The first 60 seconds, ready in about two minutes after you enter your email. No card.
The song: The full song, about two minutes long, as an MP3 to download and keep.
Lyrics: Every line is on the preview page before you pay. Unlocking adds the lyric sheet, to print or save as a PDF.
Their link: A private link that plays the whole song without an account, with your name and a short note. Switch it off any time.
Photo video: Free: a vertical 9:16 photo video of your photos with the lyrics on screen, plus 15- and 30-second cuts. Made in your browser.
The name: Unusual name? Type how to say it (SEER-sha for Saoirse) and the singer says it that way.
Re-record: One free re-record per song: change a line, the style or the voice and record it again.
Name sung wrong?: After you pay, a free remake with the name fixed, once per song.
Languages: Sung in English, German, French, Spanish or Japanese.
Teaser: Before you pay, a 15-second teaser link that tells them a song is on its way.
For this song: Family in another country? Pick the language they speak at home in the form, and the whole song, chorus and name included, is sung in it.
: Want a nudge next year? Opt in and we email you three weeks and one week before the date.

Lines a son can actually write

The meal she made after every game, win or lose.
The time she drove a long way to get you out of trouble.
What she said on your first day of work, school or college.
Her rules, and which one you now follow with your own kids.
The thing you never thanked her for.
One sentence about her laugh.

Let the song be the sentimental one

You do not need to write anything gushing. Plain facts are enough, and the melody does the emotional work. A single line like she came to every game for nine years gives the lyrics plenty to build on.

Style and voice

A male voice makes it sound like it is from you. Country and acoustic pop are warm without being heavy; a piano ballad suits a mom who cries at weddings and enjoys it.

Getting it to her

Play it at Sunday lunch before dessert.
If you are far away, call first, then send the MP3 while she is still on the line.
Put it on in the car on the way to her favorite restaurant.