Backup Singer

Yesterday at the wedding I almost laughed during my song. Now I don't normally do that when I sing, unless, of course, something funny is happening around me. Yesterday, there was. I began to sing "The Broken Road" standing behind the groomsmen and bridesmaids as the couple lit the unity candle. The bride had a 5 year old son who was standing next to her during the wedding. As I looked around during the song I saw a few people laughing. I had a couple of different thoughts running through my mind. One was, "Is my singing that bad?" and another one, "I know I zipped my fly, didn't I?" Well not long after that second thought I looked down and noticed the bride's son, Nate, looking at me and singing every word of the song with me. Not only was he singing it, but he was also performing the song. After singing to me for a minute he then turned towards the crowd and began performing the song for them, throwing his arms up in the air and apparently (as I was told) singing every word of the song and even holding out the long notes during breaks in the lyrics. By this time half of the audience was in tears from laughter while the other half was in tears because of the wedding. And there I was having to finish my song, all the while trying to be the only one, who saw Nate, not lauging.

I finished the song and then finally got to return to my seat and start laughing. Afterwards people came up to me and said, "I don't how you made it through that song", and other comments such as that. A couple of other people said to me, "looks like you had a backup singer with ya". "Nope", I said, "Apparently, I was Nate's backup singer." This was a wedding song I won't soon forget.