Song to dying infant captures Internet's heart

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Nov 15, 4:13 AM (ET)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With his infant son clinging to life, Chris Picco picked up a guitar and sang softly to the boy, urging him to "mend those broken wings and learn to fly."

After video of Picco performing the gentle Beatles' ballad "Blackbird" in a hospital intensive care ward was posted online, it quickly captured the Internet's heart. Then it just as quickly broke that heart when Picco's son died days after his mother, Ashley, passed away.

"My little fighter, Lennon James Picco, went to sleep in his daddy's arms late last night," the musician with the Loma Linda University Church's youth ministry wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday. "He was dressed in an outfit that Ashley bought for him, with little guitars on it."

The song and other images Picco posted of himself with his wife and their son brought an outpouring of grief and prayers to his Facebook page, YouTube and other sites.

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