Three Cummings Songs

Song Cycle by Lynne Plowman (b. 1969)

Publisher: Composers Edition (external link)

1. who knows if the moon's a balloon  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
who knows if the moon's        
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should

get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then           
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people        

than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where

always
          it's
                   Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves

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2. maggie and milly and molly and may  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
maggy and milly and molly and may
 [ ... ]

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3. i carry your heart with me (i carry it in)  [sung text not yet checked]

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i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
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