Mockin’ Bird Hill

a 1949 popular song
words and music by Vaughn Horton

The sheet music:

Mockin-Bird-Hill – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Mockin_Bird_Hill – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. When the sun in the mornin’ peeps over the hill
    And kisses the roses round my window sill
    Then my heart fills with gladness when I hear the trill
    Of the birds in the treetops on Mockin’ Bird Hill

Chorus
Tra-la la twittle-dee dee dee, it gives me a thrill
To wake up in the mornin’ to the mockin’ bird’s trill
Tra-la la twittle-dee dee dee, there’s peace and good will
You’re welcome as the flowers on Mockin’ Bird Hill

  1. Got a three cornered plow and an acre to till
    And a mule that I bought for a ten dollar bill
    Got a tumbledown shack and a rusty ol’ mill
    But it’s my home sweet home up on Mockin’ Bird Hill

3.When it’s late in the evening I climb up the hill
And survey all my kingdom while everything’s still
Only me and the sky and an ol’ whippoorwill
Singin’ songs in the twilight on Mockin’ Bird Hill

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: