Here's a photograph of you in Woody Hermann's band   It was 1952, you were such a handsome man   One of you at a memorial with all of Hoagy's clan   And then you and my mother   Walking hand in hand      (chorus)   And she was beautiful   And you played the piano   You were beautiful upon the keys   The world was beautiful   When the two of you were dancing   Beautiful, to me      You took a photograph of us, your ladies liberty   My hair was in the breeze and I played Carnegie   Grandmother read the sonnet of Emma Lazarus   She's only halfway in this picture   You took of all of us      (chorus)      You were a father to this lonely child   Though we are not related   You taught me how to write these notes upon a page   You were a soldier for your country in two of our wars   You played piano all your life   And you are beautiful      (chorus)