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They Have Freckles Everywhere: Seven Pieces of Me! (E. Alexander and Hall Elementary School students)
SSAA, piano - SEA-076-00 - $7.00/copy16 minutes - M Commissioned by Women in Harmony, artistic director Catherine Beller-McKenna
Seven wildly diverse musical portraits of our bodies' parts and parcels, based on children's poems about their favorite body parts. An aural and visual celebration of our physical nature, full of thoughtfulness, playfulness, and good natured "genre hopping."
(Individual movements may be performed separately.) Score
V. My Mouth - Recording (excerpt)
VI. My Fingers - Recording (excerpt)
VII. My Cheeks - Recording (excerpt)
(performed by Lamar H.S. Choir - Women ~ Gail Land, conductor)
VI. My Fingers - Recording (excerpt)
VII. My Cheeks - Recording (excerpt)
(performed by Lamar H.S. Choir - Women ~ Gail Land, conductor)
They Have Freckles Everywhere
1. My Eyes
My eyes are like an oval and an almond,
My eyes are like stones in the road,
My eyes are like a pool of water,
Ocean pieces glint in the sun like shining sapphire spheres.
Travel into two worlds of black.
Travel down into the depths of wonder, into my eyes.
My eyes are like fish swimming in a pond,
My eyes, warm like a blanket, cold as ice.
2. My Birthmark
My birthmark is
one lonely dot
on the bottom
of my foot.
3. My Legs
You always have them right underneath you.
Right underneath you, you have your legs.
I love my legs because I can wiggle them
and bend them right when I want to.
They can leap and run,
and jump on a bed,
pick me up from the ground.
They swing
back and forth
swinging high and low.
I love to dance.
I love my legs because I can wiggle them
and bend them right when I want to.
Legs are what you use for walking,
kicking through the water,
playing on the playground.
I love my legs
for they can run and walk
and wiggle and bend
and shake and kick
and swing and leap and dance:
My legs!
4. My Brain
My brain
Is an endless maze
A canoe floating down a quiet river.
Enter into the mists of thought,
Venture in to the distance,
into belief, desire, suffering, joy, pain
into wonder, into dreams
My brain
Is an endless maze.
5. My Mouth
My mouth.
Blurting out
Sound.
A sea of
Sound.
Enough
to fill the soul.
Enough
to fill the world.
My mouth!
6. My Fingers
My fingers are short.
Very short.
7. My Cheeks
They have freckles everywhere.
My cheeks are very soft,
And they have freckles everywhere.
And my cheeks puff up,
And they have freckles everywhere.
Lyrics Copyright © 2007 by Elizabeth Alexander.
1. My Eyes
My eyes are like an oval and an almond,
My eyes are like stones in the road,
My eyes are like a pool of water,
Ocean pieces glint in the sun like shining sapphire spheres.
Travel into two worlds of black.
Travel down into the depths of wonder, into my eyes.
My eyes are like fish swimming in a pond,
My eyes, warm like a blanket, cold as ice.
2. My Birthmark
My birthmark is
one lonely dot
on the bottom
of my foot.
3. My Legs
You always have them right underneath you.
Right underneath you, you have your legs.
I love my legs because I can wiggle them
and bend them right when I want to.
They can leap and run,
and jump on a bed,
pick me up from the ground.
They swing
back and forth
swinging high and low.
I love to dance.
I love my legs because I can wiggle them
and bend them right when I want to.
Legs are what you use for walking,
kicking through the water,
playing on the playground.
I love my legs
for they can run and walk
and wiggle and bend
and shake and kick
and swing and leap and dance:
My legs!
4. My Brain
My brain
Is an endless maze
A canoe floating down a quiet river.
Enter into the mists of thought,
Venture in to the distance,
into belief, desire, suffering, joy, pain
into wonder, into dreams
My brain
Is an endless maze.
5. My Mouth
My mouth.
Blurting out
Sound.
A sea of
Sound.
Enough
to fill the soul.
Enough
to fill the world.
My mouth!
6. My Fingers
My fingers are short.
Very short.
7. My Cheeks
They have freckles everywhere.
My cheeks are very soft,
And they have freckles everywhere.
And my cheeks puff up,
And they have freckles everywhere.
Lyrics Copyright © 2007 by Elizabeth Alexander.
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