Little Birdie

Traditional

Key of D · Chords: I V

Chorus

       D
Little birdie, little birdie
     A           D
Come and sing me you song
      D
Got a short time to stay here
      A            D
And a long time to be gone

Verse 1

      D
I’m a long way from old Dixie
       A   D
And my old Kentucky home
Now my parents are both dead and gone
     A                D
Have no place to call my home

Verse 2

Now I’d rather be a sailor
Way out upon the sea
Then to be at home a marred man
With a baby on my knee

Verse 3

For the married man he sees trouble
And the single boy sees none
I expect to live single
Til my days on earth are done

Verse 4

        D
Now I’d rather be in some dark hollow
          A         D
Where the sun don’t ever shine
Then to see you love another
When you promised to be mine