From the recording Looking out a Picture Window
"Susan flew into Chicago to meet my Mom and to spend New Year's Eve in 2018 with my family (all of my Mom's photo albums were out on the table) that year. It was a pleasure to watch them bond! At one point or another, Susan disappeared, and when I found her sitting in my Dad's rocker with 6 pieces of paper with scribbles on her lap... this one just had to be a waltz!"
Bill Nash (guitar and lead vocal)
Dave Nachmanoff (bass guitar, lead guitar, piano, accordion)
Megan Kleven (harmony vocals)
Bart Van Der Zeeuw (percussion)
Lyrics
Track 5 - Mae Rose – Susan Miles/Bill Nash - Standard Tuning - Capo 5
She lays his shirt down on his pillow
Every night before she climbs into their bed
She listens and remembers in the darkness
Recalling all the words he ever said
A house full of blessings and memories
Mountain portraits painted on the wall
Photo albums filled to over brimming
Anniversaries remembered in the Fall
Chorus
Arms embraced and overflowing
Kind words he always spoke, love grows
Looking down on Chicago as it’s snowing
Still holds his true love, Mae Rose
Listen in the stillness we still hear him
In a voice full of softness and so sweet
This warm house reveals his presence
Gathered round the table’s empty seat
Two dozen red roses in a bouquet
Five children in a future down the road
‘I Love you, I always have, I always will’
His final whisper for Mae Rose
Ch - Instrumental - Bridge
He left us here to find our own way
Taught us everything we know
She stays right here each and every day
In case we need his light to show CH