Saluting The Class Of 2017 With Tom Rush's 'Child's Song'

Published June 16, 2017 at 1:52 PM EDT

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Every year we commemorate the graduation season with folk singer Tom Rush’s performance of Murray McLauchlan’s “Child’s Song.” As Rush tells Here & Now‘s Robin Young, it’s a song that continues to resonate as children grow up and leave home.

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