Maggie & Millie & Mollie & May
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tekst: E.E. Cummings muziek: Dennis Duchhart
origineel door: Mathilde Santing (1984)

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Maggie and Millie and Mollie and May
went down to the beach 
to play one day

and Maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles
and

Milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were

and Molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles
and

May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone

For whatever we lose
like a you or a me
It’s always ourselves we find in the sea