Best Song With A Type Of Bird In The Title

[nyhuskyfan]

Poll question: Best Song With A Type Of Bird In The Title

Plenty of other choices, too. It has to be a kind of bird, not just "bird" so, for example, don't yell out "Free Bird".

[Mr. McD]

1. Rockin Robin

An oldie but a goody.

[Blaze Diem]

8. Yellow Bird....don't know who did this nor most of the words...

but I recall the tune..

Yellow Bird you sit all alone like me
Yellow Bird hm hm hm hm hm hm hm

hm hm hm hm hm
hm hm hm hm hm
hm hm hm hm hm hm

chorus

[NightTrain]

52. Arthur Lyman, 1961

Though I believe the song itself predates Lyman's version. He had the big hit with it here in the States, though.

[Tikki]

17. Fly Robin Fly....

by Silver Convention.....not really the best song, but, has Robin in the title, also.

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28. Deleted

[DODI]

2. Also, Bluebird - PMc & Wings

Anything but Asscroft!

[bigwillq]

3. Of these: "When Doves Cry"

I'm trying to think of others that are not on this list.

[Bronco69]

4. When The Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along.

:-) You didn't say how old the song had to be.

[flowomo]

5. Bush's favorite: "Finger Poppin' Time"

[Ron Green]

6. "Skylark" - Hoagy Carmichael

By far a better song than any listed!

[BlueJazz]

30. Oh Man!... Excellent choice!

[Fenris]

7. "Danger Bird" by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

[Rowdyboy]

9. "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" Little Jimmy Dickens

[ET Awful]

19. LOL . . . may an elephant caress you with his toes.

May your wife always have runners in her hose.
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose!

Haven't thought of that song in over a decade :)

[Rowdyboy]

21. Me either....Remember "You can't rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd?"

"Git-Tarzan" and "Ahab the Ayrab"

[ET Awful]

27. Of course!, How about Eric the Awful :) (the source of my screen name)

:)

[Rowdyboy]

55. Eric the Awful draws a total blank with me...I'm 50, grew up in the south

I've often wondered about your screen name and I was obviously WAYYYYYoff base.....

[ET Awful]

69. It was a Ray Stevens tune :)

Eric the Awful
The Brutal and tenacious
Eric the Awful
lacking all social graces
Subtle as a chainsaw
you can see the women's faces
You can run but you can not HIIIIIIIIIDE :)

My mom used to play it when I was a kid :). (I'm 35 now).

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. My husband and I listen to it on a CD called Americana all the time!

It has all the great oldies on it like Waterloo, Tenessee Flat Top Box, Poncho and Lefty etc...great CD. I highly suggest it. :hi:

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

10. Little Red Rooster by Willie Dixon..covered by numerous rock bands

[democracyindanger]

11. Surfin' Bird

the bird
the bird
bird is the word
bababa oo mow mow ba ba oo mau mau
bababa oo mow mow ba ba oo mau maumau

[ET Awful]

16. I was gonna say that . . .

Well everybody's heard about the bird.
Ba ba ba ba bird bird bird
bird is the word
ba ba ba ba bird bird bird
bird is the word

Don't you know about the bird?
Well everybody knows that the bird is the word.. . .



Surrrrrrrrrferrrrrr Birrrrrrrrrrd.
babababababababa ooo mow mow baba ooo mow mow
baba oo mow mow baba ooo mow mamow

Well don't you know about the bird?
Well everybody knows the bird is the word!

[utopian]

23. That's my pick

The Trashmen, The Cramps, The Ramones, any version will do.

Bird's the word, baby!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

60. joining the others

I had been examining the list and, not noticing "Surfin' Bird," thinking to myself, "what are these people, French? Am I the only 'Murkan here?' Then I saw that "Surfin' Bird had indeed made the list.

You just can't beat these lyrics:

>>
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-oom-oom-oom
Oom-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-a-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
....
<<

and so forth.

[mikeiddy]

12. White Bird - Its a Beautiful Day

[Blaze Diem]

14. Geez what a blast from the past!!!

White Bird--Its A Beautiful Day..Somewhere in 1974 (I Think)??

Great tune...beautiful voice..I remember it well..I can still smell the hashish..


mikeiddy-----thanks for the flashback to some dear glory days.
I'd love to have this song/album/cd in my posession.

Blaze

[Whoa_Nelly]

73. 1971

I used it for modern dance class.

[RetroLounge]

32. My choice too. Great song.

pass the bong...

RL

[Blaze Diem]

13. Rubber Duckie...Bert & Ernie

Rubber Duckie I'm awfully fond of you..

[nyhuskyfan]

15. What about "Doin' The Pigeon"

Although I think that was just Bert

[ET Awful]

18. You forgot Rockin' Robin :)

He rocks in the treetops all day long
rockin and boppin' and singin his song
all the little birds on jaybird street
loves to hear the robin go tweet tweet tweet :)

[ET Awful]

20. Freebird! :) n/t

[Dukakis88]

22. "Road Runner" by Jonathan Richman

[Jade Fox]

26. Yeah!!

[jdots]

24. May the Bird of Happiness Fly Up Your Nose

real song you couldn't make up something that stupid.Sung by a C&W guy who was very short and funny, DIXIE CHICKEN !!!!!
best LITTLE FEET ALBUM Lowell George had soul !

[VOX]

25. "Bluebird" by Buffalo Springfield

Listen to my bluebird laugh.
She can't tell you why.
Deep within her heart, you see,
She knows only crying.
Just crying.
There she sits, a lofty perch.
Strangest color blue.
Flying is forgotten now.
Thinks only of you.
Just you.
So, get all those blues,
Must be a thousand hues.
And be just differently used.
You just know.
You sit there mesmerized
By the depth of those eyes
That you can't categorize.
She got soul.
She got soul.
She got soul.
She got soul!
Do you think she knows you?
Do you think at all?
Soon she's going to fly away.
Sadness is her own.
Reverse of a death of tears
And go home, and go home.

[DrZeeLit]

43. Yes! I saw them live in San Diego... was it... 67 or 68? Oooh, I'm old.

But I've got great memories!!!!!!

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29. Disco Duck.

:evilgrin:




You don't think I'm serious, do you?

[BlueJazz]

31. "Strange Meadow Lark" Paul Desmond/Dave Brubeck

[necso]

34. Raven Girl - Richard & Mimi Farina.

Now roam away my raven girl
And roam away from me
And find a typhoon in the sky
And find a howling sea

And beat your wild and roving wings
And toss your raven hair
And sing a mad and joyous song
And leave me with the dead

The night's a cold and barren place
The darkness seldom lies
The wind upon the howling sea
Will lift your feathers high

The sand that itches from the tide
Will claim the steps I've sown.
The whispers in the ocean deep
Will pick my weary bones

What murmurs in your raven heart
Have taken you from sleep
What raging on a foreign shore
Has left me here to weep

What clashing in the nightmare wind
Has stirred your angry dream
What thunder on the dark wing plain
Has never been foreseen

I long to rove amoung the seas
And hear the current cry
I long to blend among the waves
And never question why

I long to shift above the sands
And never come to rest
I long for raptures never known
While lying at your breast

So roam away my raven girl
And roam away from me
And find a typhoon in the sky
And find a howling sea

And beat your wild and roving wings
And toss your raven hair
And sing a mad and joyous song
And leave me with the dead

[Radical Activist]

35. Bye Bye Blackbird - Joe Cocker

Great song

[Dukakis88]

36. "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" - Louis Jordan

and "That Chick's Too Young To Fry," also by Louis Jordan

[Dukakis88]

37. "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" by Simon and Garfunkel

I love the flute on that one...

[Dukakis88]

38. "Eagle" by ABBA

[Dukakis88]

39. "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" by Tom Lehrer

[Dukakis88]

40. "The Raven" and "Vulture Culture" by Alan Parsons Project

[Dukakis88]

41. "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley (violates "kind of bird" rule, I know)

But it's such a great song!

[Dukakis88]

42. "The Firebird" by Igor Stravinsky

[Dukakis88]

44. "Una Paloma Blanca" by Slim Whitman

[welshTerrier2]

45. The Red-Tailed Hawk

written and sung by the late Kate Wolf ...

[Dukakis88]

46. "When the Swallows Return to Capistrano" by Glenn Miller / The Ink Spots

[Dukakis88]

47. "The Woodpecker Song" by the Andrews Sisters

[Dukakis88]

48. "Baltimore Oriole" by Hoagy Carmichael

[Dukakis88]

49. "Lesbian Seagull" by Engelbert Humperdinck

from Beavis and Butthead

[PittPoliSci]

50. Link Wray - "Run Chicken Run"

Gotta love that surf rock, even though it's not really surf rock but just instrumental guitar rock, which is good too...

[Dukakis88]

51. "Cold Turkey" by John Lennon

[NightTrain]

53. So little Snowbird, take me with you when you go.

Anne Murray...fuckin' aay! :evilgrin:

[Dukakis88]

54. "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky

[Dukakis88]

56. "Strange Meadowlark" by Dave Brubeck

[Dukakis88]

"Nighthawks at the Diner" by Tom Waits

[Dukakis88]

57. "Woodstock" by Joni Mitchell (name of Snoopy's bird friend)

[Dukakis88]

58. "Albatross" by Fleetwood Mac

rockin'!

[Dukakis88]

59. "Bounce Your Boobies" by Rusty Warren (blue-footed booby is a bird)

[Dukakis88]

61. "They'll Need a Crane" by They Might be Giants

[Dukakis88]

62. "Hummingbird" by Seals and Crofts

[WilliamPitt]

63. The theme song to 'Howard the Duck'

Howard...the duck...oooh!

Gets me every time.

[Dukakis88]

70. I think that was done by Thomas Dolby...

[Dukakis88]

64. "Stool Pigeon" by Kid Creole and the Coconuts

[Dukakis88]

65. "Turkey in the Straw" (traditional hoedown)

[Dukakis88]

66. "Flying Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley

[Dukakis88]

67. "Dodo" by Genesis

[Dukakis88]

68. "Pretty Flamingo" by Manfred Mann

[JSJ]

71. 'blackbird'- beatles (white album)

[Whoa_Nelly]

72. White Bird

by It's A Beautiful Day

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

74. "Yardbird Suite" by Charlie Parker

:D

[SarahB]

75. "Snowbird"

(feeling a little Elvis-y at the moment)

Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean
The unborn grass lies waiting
for its coat to turn to green
The snowbird sings a song he always sings
And speaks to me of flowers
that will bloom again in spring

When I was young my heart was young then too
Anything that it would tell me,
that's the thing that I would do
But now I feel such emptiness within
For the thing that I want most in life
Is the thing I can't win

Spread your tiny wings and fly away
And take the snow back with you
Where it came from on that day
The one I love forever is untrue
And if I could you know
that I would fly away with you

The breeze along the river seems to say
That she'll only break my heart again
should I decide to stay
So little snowbird take me with you when you go
To that land of gentle breezes
where the peaceful waters flow

[MissMillie]

76. What? No Jonathan Livingston Seagull?

Sorry, I don't even know if there's a song by that title, but I do know there's an album.

[one_true_leroy]

77. CHICKEN... Mississippi John Hurt n/t

[Patiod]

78. FREEEEE BIIIIIRRRRDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(only kidding about the song, but I do love to yell this when a cover band somewhere asks if anyone has requests. Oh, and you have to have a lighter lit when you yell it)