a 1926 popular song
words by Mort Dixon
music by Ray Henderson
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Blackbird, blackbird, singing the blues all day
Right outside of my door
Blackbird, blackbird, why do you sit and say
“There’s no sunshine in store?”
All through the winter you hung around
Now I begin to feel homeward bound
Blackbird, blackbird, got to be on my way
Where there’s sunshine galore
Chorus
Pack up all my care and woe
Here I go singing low
“Bye bye blackbird”
Where’s somebody waits for me
Sugar’s sweet, so is she
Bye bye blackbird
No one here can love and understand me
Oh! what hard luck stories they all hand me
Make my bed and light the light
I’ll arrive late tonight
Blackbird Bye Bye
- Bluebird, bluebird, calling me far away
I’ve been longing for you
Bluebird, bluebird, this is my lucky day
Skies are turning to blue
I’m like a flower that’s fading here
Where ev’ry hour is one long year
Bluebird, bluebird, this is my lucky day
Now my dreams will come true
Sung here by Fred Feild: