Green Finch and Linnet Bird
Green finch and linnet bird,
Nightingale, blackbird,
How is it you sing?
How can you jubilate?
Sitting in cages,
Never taking wing?
Outside the sky waits,
Beckoning, beckoning,
Just beyond the bars
How can you remain?
Staring at the rain,
Maddened by the stars?
How is it you sing?
Anything?
How is it you sing?
Green finch and linnet bird,
Nightingale, blackbird,
How is it you sing?
When comes this melody constantly flowing?
Is it rejoicing or merely hallowing?
Are you discussing or fussing
Or simply dreaming?
Are you crowing?
Are you screaming?
Ringdove and robinet,
Is it for wages?
Singing to be sold?
Have you decided it's
Safer in cages,
Singing when you're told?
My cage has many rooms,
Damask and dark
Nothing there sings,
Not even my lark
Larks never will, you know,
When they're captive
Teach me to be more adaptive
Ahh ah-ah-ah ahh
Green finch and linnet bird,
Nightingale, blackbird,
Teach me how to sing
If I cannot fly,
Let me sing
Nightingale, blackbird,
How is it you sing?
How can you jubilate?
Sitting in cages,
Never taking wing?
Outside the sky waits,
Beckoning, beckoning,
Just beyond the bars
How can you remain?
Staring at the rain,
Maddened by the stars?
How is it you sing?
Anything?
How is it you sing?
Green finch and linnet bird,
Nightingale, blackbird,
How is it you sing?
When comes this melody constantly flowing?
Is it rejoicing or merely hallowing?
Are you discussing or fussing
Or simply dreaming?
Are you crowing?
Are you screaming?
Ringdove and robinet,
Is it for wages?
Singing to be sold?
Have you decided it's
Safer in cages,
Singing when you're told?
My cage has many rooms,
Damask and dark
Nothing there sings,
Not even my lark
Larks never will, you know,
When they're captive
Teach me to be more adaptive
Ahh ah-ah-ah ahh
Green finch and linnet bird,
Nightingale, blackbird,
Teach me how to sing
If I cannot fly,
Let me sing
Credits
Writer(s): Stephen Sondheim
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