"One Boy Told Me" - Seattle Children's Chorus - June, 2024

Seattle Children's Chorus in concert, June, 2024
Camerata
Nathaniel Hendrix, Associate Conductor
Randi Teigland-Hendrix, Accompanist
"One Boy Told Me" by Timothy Tackach, text by Naomi Shihab Nye
Zephyr Serniotti, soloist
"Music lives inside my legs,
It’s coming out when I talk.
There’s a stopper in my arm
that’s not going to let me grow any bigger.
I’ll be like this always, small.
I’ll invite a bee to live in your shoe.
What if you found your shoe
full of honey?
My tongue is the car wash
for the spoon.
Just think--no one has ever seen
inside this peanut before!
When I grow up my old names
will live in the house
where we live now
I’ll come and visit them.
What does minus mean?
I never want to minus you.
I do and don’t love you --
isn’t that happiness?"
Audio production by Ron Haight