Carpenter – When I bring to you colour’d toys

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Title: When I bring to you colour’d toys from Gitanjali

Music: John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951)

Text: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

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Song Text

When I bring to you colour’d toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colours on clouds, on water, and why flow’rs are painted in tints–when I give colour’d toys to you, my child.

When I sing to make you dance, I truly know why there is music in leaves, and why waves send their chorus of voices to the heart of the listening earth–when I sing to make you dance.

When I bring sweet things to your greedy hands, I know why there is honey in the cup of the flower and why fruits are secretly filled with sweet juice–when I bring sweet things to your greedy hands.

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