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Little Jazz Bird
Emilie‐Claire Barlow
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I'm a little jazz bird and I'm telling you to be one too
For a little jazz bird is in heaven when he's singing blue
I say it with regret, but you're out of date
You ain't heard nothing yet 'til you syncopate
When the going is rough, you'll find your troubles all have flown
If you warble your stuff like the moaning of a saxophone
Just try my recipe and I'm sure you'll agree
That a little jazz bird is the only kind of bird to be
But if you're a jazzy bird, you got to wake up at the crack of dawn
Hit 'em with a tuneful morning song
Get trilling and a warbling before that peppy blows in
Tra la la la and twiddle dee dee from the tamarind tree we dig it
'Cause every little thing is surely gonna be cool if you just sing
Riffin' in the treetop, tweet your blues away
You know the early birdie gets a worm
On the other hand, the early worms are getting
Eaten, they're beaten conceding the game
Well a cheerful chime of wrens can do it
Thrushes too and they can prove it
Showing at first of the morning light, they alight
And they delight in telling you what's what
And Mr. Nightowl probably pressing on that big old
Snooze once again as he grabs an extra 40 winks
But the carpe the diem, they ain't gonna wait
That's not to say that you can't stay up
Late and congregate, syncopate, pollinate
But the jazz bird got priorities, he's got eyes on the
Prize, that early rising jazz bird is the bird to be
When the going is rough, you'll find your troubles all have flown
If you warble your stuff like the moaning of a saxophone
Just try my recipe and I'm sure you'll agree
That a little jazz bird is the only kind of bird
A little jazz bird is the only kind of bird
If you're gonna be a bird, then a jazz bird is the bird to be
Doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo