[CanuckTodd]

Hey folks,
Thought I'd post this tune here before the members forum because this is where many collaborations start. Sometimes collaborations don't go anywhere, which is cool, but this one had a happy ending. This was a collaboration with Chris Shude we've been working on it for a while. I wrote the song for a friend of mine whose daughter Meghan Rush died in May of a rare blood disease at age 17. Chris wrote the music, played the instruments and sang. I think he did a really nice job and I can't thank him enough. This girl was such a trooper, and the outpouring of love and grief in her community was incredible, including a vigil of 100 teens who held candles on her front yard after she died, hundreds more who came to her funeral, and her passing deeply affected her community. Details of her ordeal and struggles were covered extensively in the local media, as she seemed to overcome one battle after another. Finally, after having defeated the blood disease, then cancer, after taking steroids, her body finally just gave out. Anyway, a sad story to be sure. But her mother Angela has heard the tune and is thrilled. With her permission I'm going to post it here and in the member's forum. She's going to put together a CD with a few songs about her daughter and intends to make donations from the proceeds to the Children's Make a Wish Foundation, a group that granted one of Meghan's wishes before she died. A friend of mine is going to sing the vocals and she'll harmonize with Chris in the chorus.
Here's a touching tribute of a poem read by her mom against a backdrop of slides of Meghan and her family and friends.
MEGHAN'S DAY

Anyway, enough said, here's the tune. Hope you enjoy it!