Sonny's Dream

Music can just grasp you and take a hold of your heard and just twist it while giving you goosebumps. If you listen to a song and it does that very thing than you know the writer did something special with words and soaked his very soul into it. That's exactly what Sonny's Dream does to me. Its exactly what hearing great songs written by Newfoundlanders about Newfoundland does to me, gives me goosebumps and makes me proud to have been given the chance of growing up in the greatest land on Earth. Ron Hynes wrote the song back in 1976 and it has become one of the most recognizable Newfoundland songs of all time. He tells interviewers later that he written the song for his autistic son. Maybe that's why its so heart filled and special. Here I have decided to post a version sung by Emmylou Harris and Mary Black. They do a wonderful job and it sounds angelic with these two beautiful voices working wonders with the song. Ron later said that out of all the cover versions of the song this was his favorite. There's no arguing why.