Who/what is the Great Speckled Bird?

Subject: RE: Who/what is the Great Speckled Bird?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Sep 23 - 01:29 PM

i think the song great speckled bird should be sung more in schools because of what i heard on this thread. i know that the tune was so famous after 1952 i fink the schools and colleges should sing this song more often. i like the song so much and like to hear that the words are about god. my dad was very in to bird watching but never heard of the song. i wish i could let him sung by roy acuff today but it is sad that he is no longer with us. from joe.

Subject: RE: Who/what is the Great Speckled Bird?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Sep 23 - 01:29 PM

i think the song great speckled bird should be sung more in schools because of what i heard on this thread. i know that the tune was so famous after 1952 i fink the schools and colleges should sing this song more often. i like the song so much and like to hear that the words are about god. my dad was very in to bird watching but never heard of the song. i wish i could let him sung by roy acuff today but it is sad that he is no longer with us. from joe.

Subject: RE: Who/what is the Great Speckled Bird?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 25 - 08:06 AM

The song The Great Specklld Bird was written by Guy Smith. I have heard a lot of ways on how he came to write his poem. The idea that folks say that the tune he inspired could have been the old vacant chair iI'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes and the Prisoner's song. As far as I know it is unclear how it all began. Thanks very much on your stories and replies from Joe.

Subject: RE: Who/what is the Great Speckled Bird?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Oct 26 - 12:30 PM

when i first came across this song iwanted to sing the great speckled bird as a solo with my band but the old folks have did not like the lyrics of the song and the tune becaseit was more remembered as the wild side of life i built a family of songs to this tune and made it in to a playlist on my amazon music alexa from joe.