# If I were a bird, I would sing all day

- Music: Liza Lehmann (died 1918)
- Words: Cora Randall Fabbri (died 1892)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6209607

## The words

If I were a bird I would sing all day;  
I would sing of you To the dropping dew,  
To the heaven’s blue, All the praise I knew,  
Till the whole world heard — If I were a bird.  
If I were a bird!  
If I were a flow’r — Say, a daisy small — I  
would kiss your feet When I saw you fleet,  
Pass me by, O sweet! I would murmur “Dear” All  
the summer hour — If I were a flow’r.  
If I were a flow’r, I would kiss your feet — If  
I were a bird, I would sing, my sweet,  
Till the whole world heard —  
If I were a  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).