Spring Morning [AA MILNE poem set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2013-09-19

This is another poem from AA Milne's 'When We Were Very Young', published in 1926.

For the music I used a couple of themes from my Surin Quartet which is also on youtube.

The video comes from Newtown Quay on the Isle of Wight.

Spring Morning

C G Am
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
Am G Am
Down to the stream where the king-cups grow-
Am G Am
Up on the hill where the pine-trees blow-
C G Am
Anywhere, anywhere. I don't know.

C Dm Em Dm
Where am I going? The clouds sail by,
Em Dm Am Em
Little ones, baby ones, over the sky.
F C Dm C
Where am I going? The shadows pass,
C G Am
Little ones, baby ones, over the grass.

If you were a cloud, and sailed up there,
You'd sail on water as blue as air,
And you'd see me here in the fields and say:
"Doesn't the sky look green today?"

Where am I going? The high rooks call:
"It's awful fun to be born at all."
Where am I going? The ring-doves coo:
"We do have beautiful things to do."

G Am
If you were a bird, and lived on high,
Am G
You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by,
C-Am G
You'd say to the wind when it took you away:
D G
"That's where I wanted to go today!"

G-D Em
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
Am Em
What does it matter where people go?
G-D Em-D
Down to the wood where the blue-bells grow-
C-D G
Anywhere, anywhere. I don't know.