Bob Waltz may be too shy to post the entry from the Traditional Ballad Index, but I'm not. Bob posted the one-verse version from the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore (Volume 3, #146), and that's all I have.

Little Birdie in the Tree

DESCRIPTION: "Little birdie in the tree, Singing a song to me, Singing about the roses, Singing about the tree; Little birdie in the tree, Singing a song for me."
AUTHOR: Philip P. Bliss (1838-1876)?
EARLIEST DATE: 1871 (Bliss, "The Charm: A Collection of Sunday School Music")
KEYWORDS: bird nonballad
FOUND IN: US(MW,SE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 146, "Little Birdie in the Tree" (1 text)
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 127, "(Little red bird in the tree)") (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Philip Paul Bliss, _The Charm: A Collection of Sunday School Music_, John Church & Co., 1871 (available on Google Books), pp. 120-121, "Little Birdie in the Tree"
Roud #5259
NOTES [26 words]: For more on Philip Paul Bliss, see the notes to "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning." Thanks to Jim Dixon for pointing out the publication in The Charm. - RBW
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File: Br3146

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