An ode to Spring--we actually made a seed packet with the flowers listed in this song for the album release!
lyrics
Trumpet flowers blow, tidy tips and sunshine daisies.
Merry marigolds, China pinks and yellow cosmos.
Larkspur lilac, Flora's bell, sweet narcissus, bliss hazel.
Rise, arise from your sleep, larkspur of Peru, lilac of Crete.
Awake from your quaking glade lay, enchanter's nightshade unfold today.
Arise, April's empire arrives. We'll see how sweetly her breezes blow beneath her chroma-keyed skies.
Realize, autumnal dirges are lies, from slumber's urges we're torn and then reborn again into light, ain't that right!
Trumpet flowers blow tidy tips and sunshine daisies.
Merry marigolds, China pinks and yellow cosmos, stargaze lily, Queen Anne's Lace, gloriosa, blue snowflake.
Awake, all you glories of snow, stargazineg willow strum Azalea's bow. Arise, April's empire arrives, stirring plums from their slumber, wiping sleep from her eyes.
I knew right then how there is no end now, I know the way.
I knew it when I went through it then, I realized that I would rise again someday--I know the way.
credits
from April's Empire,
track released April 21, 2012
Performed by The Duke of Uke and His Novelty Orchestra
Written and composed by David King, Sarah Cramer, Rebecca Burlingame, Lorene Anderson, Claire Cannon, Anna Hochhalter, and David Garcia
Uke, lead vocal by David King
Bass by Sarah Cramer
Drums by Rebecca Burlingame
Tuba, vocals, trumpet by Lorene Anderson
Violin, sax, vocals, trumpet by Claire Cannon
Sax, vocals, trumpet by Anna Hochhalter
Percussion by David Garcia
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