Signal Hill Mayor Lori Woods sings Amazing Grace with her children— From left: Celeste, Savannah, Sierra, Skyler and Lori.” captionposition=”right”] Tuesday night’s Signal Hill City Council meeting was quite the event. During the proceedings, and on the agenda, was the city council’s annual reorganization. Traditionally, the council votes to appoint the vice-mayor as the new mayor, and one of the other council members is named as the new vice-mayor.
Tradition was upheld as the council selected vice-mayor Lori Woods as the city’s new mayor and councilmember Tina Hansen was chosen as the new vice-mayor.
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After all the pomp and circumstance at the meeting was concluded, the entire council, several city staff members and many well-wishers trotted down to the city’s community center for the Mayor’s reception.
After the crowd enjoyed a feast, including a mashed-potato bar, dessert feast, lots of beverages and champagne, too, new Mayor Lori Woods introduced her children who sang a song called “Family Is Family” by Kacey Musgraves. It was a very moving acknowledgement of their family and a loving tribute to their mother, the new mayor of the City of Signal Hill. See lyrics below.
Note: Lori later joined her children in a poignant version of “Amazing Grace.”
Lyrics of “Family Is Family” by KACEY MUSGRAVES
They’re there for your first year, they give you your first beer
When you get your heart broke, they’re there for your worst year
Don’t get you at all, but your apple don’t fall too far from ’em
They own too much wicker and drink too much liquor
You’d wash your hands of them, but blood’s always thicker
You might look just like ’em; that don’t mean you’re like ’em
But you love ’em Family is family, in church or in prison
You get what you get, and you don’t get to pick ’em T
hey might smoke like chimneys, but give you their kidneys
Yeah, friends come in handy, but family is family
They’re there when you’re married, divorced, and remarried
You fall out of touch, but then someone gets buried
And you’re right back together like no time has ever gone by
Can’t live with or without ’em; you might talk about ’em
But if someone else does, well, then you’ll knock ’em out cause
When it’s all said and done, they’re the only ones that you got
Family is family, in church or in prison
You get what you get, and you don’t get to pick ’em
They might smoke like chimneys, but give you their kidneys
Yeah, friends come in handy, but family is family
Yeah, family is funny, they’ll ask you for money
Even though they know you ain’t got no money
They show up at Christmas, get up in your business
They might not be fancy, but family is family
You might look just like ’em; that don’t mean you’re like ’em
But you love ’em
