My Sister Mary & My Mother

Lyrics

My sister Mary loved visiting mom Would take her out for a ride They both enjoyed the open road And gently rolling countryside So different from the nursing home Where she'd sit in a chair Thinking that she'd just arrived And wanting to get away from there They'd drive past farms and sometimes stop Buy fruit and fresh picked corn Gather sunflowers and wild roses Being careful with the thorns But most of all Mom loved to sit Quiet by the lake Eating vanilla ice cream No need for cakе On one lovely sunny day My sister Mary and my mothеr Were enjoying time spent on the shore Simply with each other When a giant osprey swooped on down Right out of the blue Dove feet first into the lake The way that ospreys do Emerged with a great big lake trout Wriggling in its claws My sister Mary and my mother watched it Defying gravity's laws Flapped its wings so hard Struggling with the weight Of a fish that no doubt now had An elevated heart rate My sister Mary and my mother Witnessed this dramatic show Nature in all its splendor Beauty, wonder, woe They watched the bird and wriggling fish Disappear into the sky Then my mother said "I hope that fish had a dream to fly"