Everybody Loves to Hear a Bird Sing

(Tom T. Hall)



Sometimes birds don't have enough to eat

There's not enough food in the fields or the streets

There are too many cities where there used to be trees

So it's left up to you and me.



Everybody loves to hear a bird sing (whistle)

The prettiest music you have ever heard

Here's how to make friends with the bird.



First you get some peanut butter out of a jar

And you can buy a bag of bird seed anywhere

You mix it all together and you put it on the ground

And pretty soon the birds come around.



Everybody loves to hear a bird sing (whistle)

The prettiest music you have ever heard

Here's how to make friends with the bird.



Some people buy spray and they spray it on the land

They kill all the little bitty bugs that they can

The birds eat up the bugs and it makes them sick

I wish we didn't have to do that.



Cause everybody loves to hear a bird sing (whistle)

The prettiest music you have ever heard

Here's how to make friends with the bird.



Right now you're young and you're not very tall

You're really very busy and you're rally very small

Someday when you're older and things go wrong

You've gotta need a pretty bird song.



Because everybody loves to hear a bird sing (whistle)

The prettiest music you have ever heard

Here's how to make friends with the bird...