FLOWER OF THE SUN - Song Page
© words & music by Annie Wilson
from CD Sky & Water, Wind & Grass
Album Note: Do we have the most beautiful, hardy, awesome state flower, or what! I love sunflowers, especially how they grow anywhere and everywhere. They’re like Kansans: they are beautiful, there are many different kinds, and they are tough!
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Kansas Day Video by Annie for Wichita -
Sedgwick County Historical Museum Program
LYRICS:
In the final days of summer when fall is near at hand
You’ll see a sweet explosion burst out upon the land
A million yellow flowers are shining like the sun
To brighten up the prairie before the season’s done
She’s our Sunflower,
our flower made of gold
Our wild sunflower,
she won’t be bought or sold
The summer sun is shining
in every single one
She’s a circle made of sunbeams,
our flower of the sun
She’ll stand up to the windstorm , survive a summer drought
She’s pretty as the prairie, but tough as all get-out
Nobody has to plant her, she’ll grow up anywhere
And turn roadsides into gardens with her blooms so fair
CHORUS
There is worth in every life, in plants and people, too
And what to some might be a weed to others is a jewel
This common flow’r reminds us: in every living thing
A treasure lies before us, if only we would see
CHORUS