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Sen. Hatch's song reduced Sen. Franken to tears
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) had his new Democratic colleague, Sen. Al Franken (Minn.), in tears with his singing.
Franken told HometownSource.com
that, earlier this year, a song written by Hatch about their late
colleague, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), was so beautiful that it made
Franken cry.
Franken said that during his first week in the
Senate he'd invited Hatch, a longtime singer and lyricist, over to hear
some of his senior colleague's tunes.
“And the first one was
just a beautiful song sung by an old blues guy — Orrin doesn’t sing,”
Franken said. “And it was like a demo. Done very simply. But it was a
song about Teddy."
The song, which incorporated a sailing metaphor, sparked an emotional moment.
“I got a little bit — a little misty there,” Franken told the website. “And I just started to cry."
Hatch,
who was a close friend of Kennedy's in what was an unusual political
odd couple, delivered a eulogy for Kennedy during a memorial service
after the veteran senator died in August.
The moment led Franken
to help write a bridge for the song, which soon brought the pair of him
and Hatch to laughter, the Minnesota senator said.
