Subject: Lyr Add: I HEARD THE BLUEBIRDS SING (The Browns)
From:
Ralph Butts
Date: 06 Aug 98 - 08:28 AM
Great bluegrass number, assuming this is the one you mean. I wish I had someone to pick this with...Tiger
I HEARD THE BLUEBIRDS SING
Words and music by Hod Pharis
As recorded by "Jim Edward, Maxine and Bonnie Brown" [a.k.a. The Browns] (1957)
1. I met a girl out in the hills
Who gave my lonely heart a thrill.
Her beauty seemed just like a breath of spring;
And when I looked into her eyes,
I thought of bluest summer skies,
And when I held her hand in mine, I heard the bluebirds sing.
CHORUS 1: They sang of wondering (wondering if he loves her)
Will she marry (marry, if he'll ask her?)
Will her heart beat (heart beat true for him for)
Then and ever more?
And when she's lonely (lonely, is he near her?)
When there's sadness (sadness, will he cheer her?)
Will they always (always be together)
Until in death they part?
2. I courted her for months on end
Until she promised we would wed.
We planned on being married in the spring.
All through the long cold winter months,
It seemed that spring would never come,
And every gloomy winter day, I heard the bluebirds sing.
CHORUS 2: They sang of waiting (waiting for the flowers)
And of counting (counting every hour)
'Til the bluebird (bluebird chirps its welcome)
Into the world once more;
And though we're waiting (waiting for the sunshine),
We keep hating (hating every storm cloud)
That has gathered (gathered o'er the mountains)
To keep us far apart.
3. Then when at last spring touched the earth,
We were married in the village church.
Our wedding seemed just like a dream come true.
So many years have come and gone!
Our love is still as true and strong
As when I found her long ago, and still the bluebirds sing.
CHORUS 3: They sing of loving (loving every hour)
That I'm married (married to my flower).
We'll be happy (happy ever after)
As since the day we met;
And though we're older (older love is sweeter)
We grow fonder (fonder of each other).
We'll be sweethearts (sweethearts close together)
Until the end of time.
- - - Also recorded by The Greenbriar Boys
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