Retirement
Thirty years of mornings, and the send-off is a sheet cake and a group card. Sing their career back to them.
A retirement song about a whole career
Thirty years of work deserves more than a cake and a card. Tell us what they did, who they helped and what they will finally have time for, and we write an original song that sings their name.
Hear the second a name lands
Nguyen, you are the anchor of my life.
You wrote“Drove a taxi in Houston for twenty years and never missed one of my soccer games.”
The song singsYou drove that Houston taxi day and night, but you made every soccer game look bright.
From a real song made here: “My Anchor, Nguyen”, for Nguyen, from what his daughter typed.
The moment you give it
Their desk is empty except for the plant and a tag on it. The song names the early shifts and the people they trained, and the retirement party starts ten minutes late because nobody wanted to interrupt.
Last day, 5:00 pm sharp
To: the one who trained half this building
From: everyone who called you first when it broke
Clock out, then press play.
Start with one memory
Pick a question. The form opens with your first line already started.
Closest sample: a song about a working life
"My Anchor, Nguyen" honors twenty years behind the wheel, the same spirit as a retirement song.
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
- One link for everyone: it plays without an account, so a whole class or team can hear it from one group email.
- For a party or school slideshow: the photo video sets your photos to the song, or download the MP3 and use it under your own.
Career details to collect
- How many years, and where.
- The job title, and what they actually did all day.
- A story the team still tells.
- Someone they mentored.
- What retirement will look like: the boat, the garden, the grandkids.
For a colleague or a parent
Teams often make a retirement song for the farewell party. Families make one for a parent finishing a long career. The brief is similar; only the voice changes, from 'we at the office' to 'your kids'.
For example
A place, a kindness and the next adventure.
- Carol ran the front desk at Lincoln Elementary for twenty-six years and knew every kid's name.
- She kept a drawer of granola bars for anyone who missed breakfast.
- Now she finally gets to see the national parks in her camper.
Playing it at the party
- Right after the speeches.
- Under a slideshow of photos from the years.
- As the last thing before the cake.
- In the email the team sends on their final day.
What to leave out
A retirement song should make everyone at the party nod along.
Not every career happens in an office. A parent retiring from a family farm, a business they built or decades of caregiving deserves a song too. Write about the work in plain terms: the early mornings, the customers who became friends, the parts they will not miss. End with one line about the first thing they plan to do with a free Monday.
- Jokes about age that could sting.
- Office politics, or the reasons they are leaving.
- Anything only one person in the room would understand.