Anyone Can Fly Song by Faith Ringgold






Students and friends of Faith Ringgold sing the Anyone Can Fly Song
Anyone Can Fly Song     

by Faith Ringgold

written 1991

 1

There is a place way up high
Where everyone can fly
There's no limit to where you can go
Or how strong your wings can grow
All you have to know


Anyone can fly
If one can
Anyone can
All you got to do is try
Spread your arms to reach the sky
And you'll know the reason why
Anyone Can fly


2

You may have to take a chance
Feel the joy of song and dance
Let your body move around
Learn to laugh Ha!  Ha!  instead of frown
Don't waist another day
Worrying about what people say
Take your life in your hands
Now contemplate the flight command


Anyone can fly
If one can
Anyone can
All you got to do is try
Spread your arms to reach the sky
And you'll know the reason why
Anyone Can fly


3

They may say you don't know
You can't learn and you can't grow
Tell you you're through
And make it seem true
Have you laying in the street
Without a home and nothing to eat
Get inside your head so strong
Make you think everything right
Is wrong
But not for long


Anyone can fly
If one can
Anyone can
All you got to do is try
Spread your arms to reach the sky
And you'll know the reason why
Anyone Can fly


4

There are some people with wings in the sky
They are low but they fly high
They say you must have a certain face
Be a certain kind of a certain race
And that you must come from a certain place
They are guilty of telling a lie
That only certain folks can fly


Anyone can fly
If one can
Anyone can
All you got to do is try
Spread your arms to reach the sky
And you'll know the reason why
Anyone Can fly


5 

You must use the power of the flight command
You must learn the magic of the helping hand
Love yourself and others too
Believe in them
And believe in you
And try hard
At everything you do


Anyone can fly
If one can
Anyone can
All you got to do is try
Spread your arms to reach the sky
And you'll know the reason why
Anyone Can fly



Anyone Can Fly

by Faith Ringgold
copyright 1991
New York City









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