Release Alto Voice - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.1022084

Release ©2006, lyrics©2010.  Bill’s mom Priscilla Alden Taylor (nee Rowe) passed on at age 90 in January, 2010.  This piece was one she loved, but the words did not come until 2 months after her death and 2 days before Jaye and I were to perform Mom’s song "Every Time We Meet" at the Anderson Valley Variety Show.  We sung it as best we could with so little practice time and in a key way too high.  This version is transposed down a fifth.  Listeners with parents who have gone on, and those who haven’t, may find some familiar themes here.  If inspired, support your local elder and/or hospice organizations.

I love my children to be happy. 

What’s new with you Mom?  Charlotte’s got a bakery.

Hannah is teaching, playing in San Jose.

Tom and Jeanne expecting, he’s flying a new plane.

Lucy’s kids are doing well, I’m seeing Uncle Jay.

My life is going on in a most pleasant way.

When are you coming here to visit, it’s been way too long?

When we were children everything was made into a song.

Father’s jazzy flute, brother’s boogie woogie

She left Julliard to help her family

Factory in the war, music she wrote

A job at Schirmers she met my Dad had 5 kids

Trips to Vermont and Jersey and New York

Kept house, school lunch, kind words, praising

Now she is running and swimming

Dancing and flying, she’s singing

All new adventures, new worlds to learn and know

Earth body left behind, all life is love and flow

Walker made her so tired, shuffling oh so slow

She learned to ask for help from all of us below

Gathered her children all around her at her time to go

Now she’s with her God.