Once I Saw a Little Bird

X: 41
T: Once I Saw a Little Bird
O: Old Scotch
%R: air, march
B: "The Everyday Song Book", 1927
F: http://www.library.pitt.edu/happybirthday/pdf/The_Everyday_Song_Book.pdf
Z: 2017 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: D
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w: 1.~Once I saw a       lit-tle bird come* hop, hop, hop!  So I cried, "Lit-tle
w: 2.~Back then came the lit-tle bird with* hop, hop, hop!  So I cried, "Lit-tle
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F2 E D | Fz Ez Ez D E | F- F F F G F E D |
w: bird, will you stop, stop, stop?"  And was go-ing to the win-dow to say:
w: bird, you must stop, stop, stop!"  Then I went* to the salt-box, so my
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w: "How do you do?"     When he shook his lit-tle tail* and a-way he flew!
w: plan would not fail, And I put a lit-tle pinch* on his tail, tail, tail!
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/EverydaySongBook1/0082
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/EverydaySongBook2/0082

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