Miyoshi Umeki

A Hundred Million Miracles

Miyoshi Umeki


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