A Hundred Million Miracles 1958 'Flower Drum Song'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 30 Nov 2005

[Mei Li:] My father says
that children keep growing,
rivers keep flowing, too.
My father says
he doesn't know why,
but somehow or other they do
[Dr. Li:] They do!
Some how or other they do.

[Mei Li:] A hundred million miracles,
a hundred million miracles
are happ'ning ev'ry day,
and those who say they don't agree
are those who do not hear or see.
A hundred million miracles,
a hundred million miracles,
are happ'ning ev'ry day

[Dr. Li speaks:] Miracle of changing weather!

[Mei Li:] When a dark blue curtain
is pinned by the stars,
pinned by the stars to the sky,
ev'ry flower and tree is a treat to see,
the air is very clean and dry.
Then a wind comes blowing the pins all away,
night is confused and upset!
The sky falls down like a clumsy clown,
the flowers and the trees get wet.

[Dr. Li speaks:] Very wet!

[Mei Li:] A hundred million miracles,
a hundred million miracles
are happ'ning ev'ry day,
and when the wind shall turn his face,
the pins are put right back in place!
A hundred million miracles,
a hundred million miracles,
are happ'ning ev'ry day!

[Liang:] In ev'ry single minute
so much is going on,
along the Yellow River
or the Tiber or the Don.
[N. C.:] A hundred million miracles!
[Wang:] A swallow in Tasmania
is sitting on her eggs,
and suddenly those eggs
have wings and eyes and feet and legs.
[Mei Li:] A hundred million miracles!
[Liang:] A little girl in Chunking
just thirty inches tall,
decides that she will try to walk
and nearly doesn't fall!
[All:] A hundred million miracles!

[Mei Li:] A hundred million miracles,
[All:] A hundred million miracles,
A hundred million miracles,
are happ'ning ev'ry day.

[Mei Li:] My father says
the sun will keep rising
over the eastern hill.
My father says he doesn't know why
but some how or other it will
[Others:] It will!
Somehow or other it will!

Soft karaoke
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A Hundred Million Miracles 1958
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
from "The Flower Drum Song"
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 30 November 2005 at 17.27
in association with Doug Grierson
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