I thought maybe I heard one on Saturday. Paul says he’s seen one already. Soon they will be back, in all their glory.
I love this Hoagy Carmichael/Paul Francis Webster song about restlessness, infidelity, anger, forgiveness. It’s not the easiest tune in the songbook to warble well, but I found a nice cover of it on Youtube.
Baltimore Oriole
Took one look at that mercury, forty below
No life for a lady
To be draggin’ her feathers around in the snow
Leaving me blue, off she flew
To the Tangipaho, down in Louisiana
Where a two-timin’ jaybird
Met the divine Miss O
I’d like to ruffle his plumage
That Baltimore Oriole
Messed around with that big guy
Till he singed her wings
Forgivin’ is easy—it’s a womanlike-now-and-then-
Could-happen-to thing
Send her back home
Home ain’t home without her warbling
How she can sing
Make a lonely man happy, Baltimore Oriole
Come down from that bough
Fly to your daddy now
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
I love Hoagy and I love Paul Francis Webster, too, but I'd never heard this song. Yes, definitely a difficult one, but it figures a singer named Susan could handle it. :-)
BTW, I like the name of the person who posted the video: jazzgardener.
How can one not love a song that combines infidelity, anger and forgiveness?
Post a Comment