Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems  



Let It Be

Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1960 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1988. Dedicated to the Nature Conservancy.


When you walk in the forest, let it be.
There's a flower in the wood, let it be.
There's a flower in the wood, and it's innocent and good,
By the stone where it stands, let it be.

Let it be, let it be,
It's so lovely where it is, let it be.

Tho you want it for your own,
If you take it from its place,
It will not be what it was when you loved it
Where it stood in the wood.

Let it be, let it be,
It's so lovely where it is, let it be.

It's a thoughtful child,
Innocent and wild,
By the stone, by the reed,
Let it bloom, let it seed, let it be.


Malvina Reynolds songbook(s) in which the music to this song appears:
---- Little Boxes and Other Handmade Songs
---- Cheerful Tunes for Lutes and Spoons: Youngish 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:
---- Peter Blood and Annie Patterson: Rise Up Singing: The Group-Singing Song Book [lyrics & guitar chords only] (Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corp., 1992)
---- Peter and Annie Blood-Patterson: Winds of the People [lyrics & guitar chords only] (Sing Out, 1980?)
---- Peter Blood-Patterson: Rise Up Singing: The Group-Singing Song Book [lyrics & guitar chords only] (Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corp., 1988), p. 36
---- Jim Morse and Nancy Mathews: The Sierra Club Survival Songbook (San Francisco and New York: The Sierra Club, 1971)
---- Evelyn Weiss et al.: Children's Songs for a Friendly Planet (Burnsville, NC: World Around Songs, 1986)

Malvina Reynolds recording(s) on which this song is performed:
---- Another County Heard From
---- Malvina Reynolds
---- Malvina Reynolds
(2007)
---- Century City Records CCR-510 (7-inch 45 rpm disc, 1969; flip side "Alcatraz")
---- listen to youtube.com video

Recordings by other artists on which this song is performed:
---- Jack Davidson and the Little Singers of Mt. Roskill: You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out (45 r.p.m. e.p., Kiwi Records EA-113)
---- Jack Davidson and the Little Singers of Mt. Roskill: Morningtown Ride (45 r.p.m. single, Cassandra Records CS-11, 1968)
---- John Gage: Earth Heart (Falk Recording Studios, 1997)
---- Coco Kallis: Environmental Songs for Kids (Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings SFW 45048, 1999)
---- Tony Saletan: Let's All Sing (Western Records WV-1102, 1976)
---- listen to youtube.com video


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