I Always Say Hello to a Flower - John Lithgow

Some people talk to each other

While others talk to their cats

Some people talk to their mothers

While others talk through their hats

I communicate with nature

With a plant, a leaf, a tree

And I’m always nice to a flower

For they’re absolutely perfect to me

I always say, 'Hello', to a flower

'Hello, hello, hello'

I totally ignore the crashing bore

Who lives next door

For his conversation’s silly

Yet I never stub a lily

I always say, 'Bonjour', to a lilac

'Bonjour, bonjour, bonjour'

I’m absolutely mute

With a bully in a suit

And I never talk a fruit

Have a nurse

But I always say, hello to a rose

Yes, I always wave at the window box

If the box is filled with hollyhocks

And I speak to the daisies

I think they are swell

Tell your secrets to a daisy

She’ll never tell

I always say, 'Hello', to a snow ball

'Hello, hello there, hello'

Look sideways at a stranger

And you put your life in danger

But one can kiss a sweet bouquet

A brushing bride has tossed away

Flowers are the sweetest things I know

So when I see a flower I say, 'Hello'

Higher synth

I never shrink away from a violet, oh, no

No, I say hello

I maybe off my rocker

But I never pep a cocker

Yet the dog would in the park

Will never ever bark

I’m always glad to see a gladiola

I’m just mad about the glad

You can stand next to a bush

And never feel one push

Flowers are refined and polite

You know I have never seen a Pansy fight

Yes, I talk to bees

And I talk to birds

But they leave me quite

At a loss for words

And I never touch a cat

While it sleeps on a pillow

But I pause a tibly trust

A pussy who willow

I always say, 'Hello', to a flower

'Hello, hello, hello'

Get friendly with a mouse

And he’ll hang around your house

But flowers never overstay

They stay there, then fade away

Flowers are the sweetest things I know

So when I see a flower I say, 'Hello'