Soaring and spinning and touching the sky
The boy who picked up his feet to fly
“Hooray!”
“Oh dear!”
“So long, good-bye!”
Said Johnny and Jenny and Alison Bly

Flying on sunbeams and kissing the sky
The houses and trees all whizzing right by
As further
And faster
He flew up on high
The boy who picked up his feet to fly

Mountains and deserts and oceans and sky
The moon and the sun and the birds that cry
“No more,
I’m tired
I’ve had my try.”
Said the boy who picked up his feet to fly

The boy who picked up his feet to fly
Never was able to step from the sky
But flew on and on as years passed by
And deep in the wind you can still hear him sigh…

The program concludes with Joshua Shank’s The Boy Who Picked Up His Feet to Fly, with text by Mark Robinson. Despite this piece’s “be careful what you wish for mood” at the end (as Shank puts it in his composer notes), it reminds us of our innate nature to dream.