A lovely, low tune to practice – “Colours of the Wind” is the main song from the Disney film Pocahontas. I particularly enjoyed this one on flute, it (nearly) sounds lovely! Beginners, piccolos and recorders may need to shift the notes up a bit to play comfortably, pianists should have no problem. Enjoy!
C G Bb Bb G-G-F F D# F C
You think you own whatever land you land on
C G Bb Bb G G F F D# G
The earth is just a dead thing you can claim
Bb ^C Bb Bb-G G F F D# F – C
But I know every rock and tree and creature
F G F D# F G-Bb F G C
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name…
C G Bb Bb-G G-F F D# F-C
You think the only people who are people
C C G-Bb G G F F D# Bb
Are the people who look and think like you
Bb ^C Bb Bb G G – F F D# F – C
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
F G F D# F-G F
You’ll learn things you never knew
D# C-D# D#
You never knew…
G Bb ^D#-^D ^D ^C ^C Bb
Have you ever heard the wolf cry
Bb G G Bb ^C
To the blue corn moon?
^C ^D# ^D ^D-^C ^C-Bb Bb G Bb
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grins?
G Bb ^D# ^D ^D ^C ^C-Bb
Can you sing with all the voices
Bb ^C Bb – D#
Of the mountain?
C D# F G G F F-D# D# C F
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
C D# F G G F F-D# D# C D#
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind…?
C G Bb Bb-G G F F D# F-C
Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
C G Bb Bb – G G – F F D# Bb
Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth
Bb ^C Bb Bb G G-F F D#-F C
Come roll in all the riches all around you
F G F D#-F G-Bb
And for once, never wonder
F G C
What they’re worth…
G ^D ^C Bb ^C-Bb-G D#
How high does the sycamore grow?
C D# F G F C D# G-F F
If you cut it down, then you’ll never know…
G Bb ^D#-^D ^D ^C ^C Bb
And you’ll never hear the wolf cry
Bb G G Bb ^C
To the blue corn moon
^C ^D#-^D ^D ^C ^C Bb Bb-G Bb
For whether we are white or copper skinned
F G Bb ^D#
We need to sing
^D ^D ^C ^C-Bb Bb ^C Bb-D#
With all the voices of the mountains
C C D# F
We need to paint
G G F F-D# D# C D#
With all the colors of the wind…
C D# F G G F F
You can own the earth and still
D# F G Bb G Bb-^C
All you’ll own is earth until
Bb ^C ^D#
You can paint
^D ^C Bb G-F
With all the colors
D# C D#
Of the wind…