Come Blow Your Horn

Come Blow Your Horn
by Michael Mark & Tom Chapin
© 2000 HCD Music & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

All dressed in shells and feathers,
Soft skin and fur and scales,
The butterflies and lions,
Hummingbirds and whales.
The wild wind whispers to us all,
To leaf and thistle and thorn.
Every living thing come blow your horn.

The raccoon washes off her hands
As water rushes by.
The morning glory opens up
To greet the dragonfly.
The camel’s in the desert.
The cow is in the corn.
Every living thing come blow your horn.
Come blow your horn,
Let it echo all around the world.
Hail the miracle of leaf and thistle and thorn.
Call a man, tell a woman,
Teach each boy and girl
To celebrate the earth, come blow your horn.

I have walked in California
Among thousand year old trees,
Seen albatross on twelve foot wings
Sail the southern seas,
Heard a hoot owl call at midnight
And a rooster wake the dawn,
Every living thing come blow your horn.
Come blow your horn,
Let it echo all around the world.
Hail the miracle of leaf and thistle and thorn.
Call a man, tell a woman,
Teach each boy and girl
To celebrate the earth, come blow your horn.

I am not a prophet but I know full-well
What we do to Mother Earth,
We do to ourselves.

Stand together as the Great Wheel
Turns us toward another day.
Send out a call to the human race
To find a better way
And promise not to plunder,
Not to leave a world that’s torn.
Every living thing come blow your horn.
Come blow your horn,
Let it echo all around the world.
Hail the miracle of every new-made morn.
Call a man, tell a woman,
Teach each boy and girl
To celebrate the earth, come blow your horn.
Come blow your horn,
Let it echo all around the world.
Hail the miracle of leaf and thistle and thorn.
Call a man, tell a woman,
Teach each boy and girl
To celebrate the earth, celebrate the earth,
Every living thing come blow your horn.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's This Pretty Planet CD.

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