Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems  

From Way Up Here

Notes: words by Malvina Reynolds, music by Pete Seeger; copyright 1962 Abigail Music Company, renewed 1990.

From way up here the earth looks very small,
It's just a little ball of rock and sea and sand,
No bigger than my hand.

From way up here the earth looks very small,
They shouldn't fight at all
Down there, upon that little sphere.

Their time is short, a life is just a day,
You'd think they'd find a way.
You'd think they'd get along
And fill their sunlit days with song.

From way up here the earth looks very small,
It's just a little ball,
So small, so beautiful and clear.

Their time is short, a life is just a day,
Must be a better way,
To use the time that runs
Among the distant suns.

From way up here the earth is very small,
It's just a little ball,
So small, so beautiful and dear.

Malvina Reynolds songbook(s) in which the music to this song appears:
---- Little Boxes and Other Handmade Songs
---- The Malvina Reynolds Songbook
---- There's Music in the Air: Songs for the Middle-Young

Other place(s) where the music to this song appears:
---- Broadside No. 15 (November 1962)
---- Julie Forest Middleton: Songs for Earthlings: A Green Spirituality Songbook (Philadelphia: Emerald Earth Pub., 1998)
---- Jim Morse and Nancy Mathews: The Sierra Club Survival Songbook (San Francisco and New York: The Sierra Club, 1971)
---- Sing Out!, Volume 13(1) (1963), pp. 26-27

Malvina Reynolds recording(s) on which this song is performed:
---- Malvina Reynolds
---- Malvina Reynolds (2007)
---- listen to youtube.com video

Recordings by other artists on which this song is performed:
---- Larry Hanks: Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail (Long Sleeve LS 104, 1982)
---- Seeds; The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 (Appleseed Recordings APR CD 1072, 2003)
---- Pete Seeger: Broadsides, Songs and Ballads (Folkways Records FA 2456, 1964)
---- Pete Seeger: God Bless the Grass (Columbia CL 2432, 1966)
---- Pete Seeger: We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert (Columbia C2K 45312, 1989/1963)
---- Pete Seeger: Headlines & Footnotes (Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40111, 1999)
---- Rosalie Sorrels: No Closing Chord; The Songs of Malvina Reynolds (Red House Records RHR CD 143, 2000)
---- Glenn Yarbrough: Let Me Choose Life (Warner Brothers WS 1832, 1970)
---- listen to youtube.com video
---- listen to youtube.com video