and flowers pick themselves . . .



Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon
Lyricist: e.e. cummings

Opened: October 29, 2005, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Performances: Unknown

Note: This is a song cycle.


i thank You God for most this amazing day:

1. and flowers pick themselves, CD/Blue Griffin (Melanie Helton with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano, and the Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Raphael Jimenez)


why did you go:

1. and flowers pick themselves, CD/Blue Griffin (Melanie Helton with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano, and the Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Raphael Jimenez)


thy fingers make early flowers of:

1. and flowers pick themselves, CD/Blue Griffin (Melanie Helton with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano, and the Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Raphael Jimenez)


anyone lived in a pretty how town:

1. and flowers pick themselves, CD/Blue Griffin (Melanie Helton with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano, and the Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Raphael Jimenez)


who knows if the moon’s:

1. and flowers pick themselves, CD/Blue Griffin (Melanie Helton with Ricky Ian Gordon, piano, and the Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Raphael Jimenez)