I'd agree that the Lorez Alexandria recording is a very interesting Latin arrangement - she has a wonderful voice. Click here for a YouTube recording of the George Harrison version from the Somewhere in England album. Apparently, it's only George Harrison who explains that the Tangipaho is "down in Louisiana" - it's not on the Hoagy Carmichael recording.

Here's my transcription of the Judy Henske recording, which is a bit different from Carmichael's:

BALTIMORE ORIOLE
(Paul Francis Webster/Hoagy Carmichael)

Baltimore Oriole
Took a look at the mercury, forty below,
No life for a lady
To be draggin' her feathers around in the snow
Leaving her mate, she flew straight
To the Tangipaho
Where a two-timin' jaybird
Met the divine Miss O!

Baltimore Oriole
Messed around with that big mouth
Till he singed her wings
Forgivin' is easy - it's a woman-like, now-and-then
Could-happen thing
Call her back home
Home ain't home without her warbling
Make a lonely girl happy,
Baltimore Oriole
You come down from your bough
Fly back to your daddy now.

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Is it "Messed around with that bigmouth," or do others hear something else on the Henske recording? Others sing "Flew around with that jaybird."
-Joe-