Songs about Spring

Song Cycle by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019)

1. who knows if the moon's a balloon
 (Sung text)

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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Note: this poem entered the public domain in 2021.

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2. Spring is like a perhaps hand
 (Sung text)

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Spring is like a perhaps hand
 [ ... ]

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3. In Just‑spring
 (Sung text)

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in Just-
spring          when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
 
whistles       far         and wee --
 
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
 
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far       and         wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
 
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
 
it's
spring
and
        the
 
                goat-footed
 
balloonMan         whistles
far
                                and
                wee

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First published as "IV" in Five Poems, in The Dial, Volume 68 no. 5, May 1920, and in 1923 in Tulips and Chimneys.

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4. in Spring comes
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
in/ Spring comes (no
 [ ... ]

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5. when faces called flowers float out of the ground
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when faces called flowers float out of the ground
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