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[minoanmiss]

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Winter's on the Wing
Lucy Simon, 1991 Original Broadway Cast
DICKON:
Winter's on the wing,
Here's a fine spring morn'
Comin' clear through the night,
Come the day I say.
Winter's taken flight
Sweepin' dark cold air
Out to sea, Spring is born,
Comes the day say I,
And you'll be here to see it.
Stand and breathe it all the day.
Stoop, and feel it. Stop and hear it.
Spring, I say.
And now the sun is climbin' high,
Rising fast on fire,
Glaring down through the gloom,
Gone the gray, I say.
The sun it spells the doom
Of the winter's reign,
Ice and chill must retire
Comes the May say I,
And you'll be here to see it.
Stand and breathe it all the day.
Stoop, and feel it. Stop and hear it.
Spring, I say.
I say, be gone, ye howling gales,
Be off, ye frosty morns!
All ye solid streams begin to thaw.
Melt, ye waterfalls,
Part ye frozen winter walls.
See, see now it's starting.
And now the mist is liftin' high,
Leavin' bright blue air
Rollin' clean 'cross the moor
Comes the day I say.
The storm'll soon be by
Leaving clear blue sky,
Soon the sun will shine,
Comes the day, say I.
And you'll be here to see it.
Stand and breathe it all the day.
Stoop and feel it. Stop and hear it.
Spring, I say.

Comments

[colorwheel]

oh i LOVE this score!! do you have a preferred cast album?

[minoanmiss]

I didn't know there was more than one! I've only listened to the Broadway one.

[colorwheel]

oh my goodness, it took me a century to answer! i'm sorry about that! i've been wanting to recommend my favorite album of this show, which is the original london cast recording. i found this album because uncle archie is played by philip quast, one of my favorite singers in musical theater.

a bit of earth, which is allllllll philip quast. :)

lily's eyes

hold on