a 1922 popular song
words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Locked in a cage I’m sad as I can be
Singing my song, all the day long
It seems I can hear the forest calling me
How I keep longing, just to be free
Chorus
I’d love to leave my little red lacquer cage
And fly away out there where I
Could sing my beautiful song
In the forest where I belong
The little birds that live in a tree
Would love to hear my sweet melody
I hate to sing the song that God gave to me
In a little red lacquer cage
Sung here by Fred Feild: