Little birds are singing all around me, on every bush and vine,
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My pleasures would be doubled if I could call you mine.
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As I've sat here the whole night through till now it's a breakin' day,
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I'm awaitin' for an answer, kind lady what do you say?
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If I could tell to you my mind, I would choose a single life,
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For I would never thought that it suited for me to be your wife.
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So he wrote to her an answer and he sent it by full speed,
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"You know I once did love you dearly, I once loved you indeed.
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"But since that time my mind has changed, I loved another way,
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I love a pretty fair damsel more suitable for me"
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And it had not been, but a very short time 'til this maiden's mind did change,
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She wrote him a letter, "Kind sir I am ashamed,
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"If ever I have slighted you, or ever done you wrong,
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I am so far away from you that I can't hear you moan"
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Little birds are singing all around me, on every bush and vine,
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My pleasures would be doubled if i could call you mine;
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My pleasures would be doubled if i could call you mine
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Little Birds
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Levon Helm |