Toronto songwriter Donovan Woods wrote a song based on his dad's envy for his cousin's football ring.
Now Donovan's dad sends him a constant flow of e-mails with interesting newspaper clippings hoping to inspire him to write more songs.
"He’s still working hard to inspire other songs," Donovan told me. "Every day he'll send me scanned articles from the newspaper. And I say ‘Dad, you can find online versions of all these news articles.' But he still cuts them out and scans them. It’s kind of nice. It’s nice to get a big ol' file in your inbox."
Although most sports anthems are usually upbeat tracks, this song has a bit of a melancholy tinge.
"It’s a song about feeling inadequate," Donovan explained. "For me, anyway, my favourite folk songs are wistful songs that say, ‘Yeah you’re inadequate but it’s going to be okay.’"
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