a hundred million miracles

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

they do

some how or other they do

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

miracle of changing weather

when a dark blue curtain

is pinned by the stars

pinned by the stars to the sky

ev'ry flow'r

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

very wet

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

in ev'ry single minute

so much is going on

along the yangtse kiang

or the tiber or the don

a hundred million miracles

a swallow in tasmania

is sitting on her eggs

and suddenly

those eggs have wings

and eyes and beaks and legs

a hundred million miracles

a little girl in chungking

just thirty inches tal

decides that she

will try to walk

and nearly doesn't fall

a hundred million miracles

a hundred million miracles

a hundred million miracles

a hundred million miracles

are happ'ning ev'ry day

my father says the sun

will keep rising over

the eastern hill

my father says

he doesn't know

why but somehow

or other it will

it will

somehow or other it will

miracle of making music

when an idle poet

puts words on a page

writes on a page

with his brush

a musical friend

writes the notes to blend

suggested

by an idle thrush

then a young soprano

reads what they wrote

learns every note

every word

puts all they wrote

in her lovely throat

and suddenly

a song is heard

very pretty

a hundred million miracles

a hundred million miracles

a hundred million miracles

are happ'ning ev'ry day