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The art of viral videos is that they're often weird and nonsensical, providing enlightenment in the form of, say, hyperactive kids or chocolate rain. Better yet, it's when they're accompanied by inappropriate, ill-fitting music that the subversive, perhaps even "avant-garde" aesthetic helps a video tear up the web and pop up in our inboxes.

But thanks to Cute Overload for pointing us to footage of an Alaskan moose and her twins frolicking in a sprinkler that somehow bypasses "adorable" on the way to becoming a total tearjerker when set to the music of popular folkie Alison Krauss (played over the actual sound of birds chirping overhead). Just try not to tear up as Mama carefully keeps an eye on her kids as they roughhouse in a lucky homeowner's backyard.

And, please, call your mother.