X:163
T: Little Birds in Little Cages
C: words: George Howland
C: music: Reichardt
%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: 1/4
F:http://roaringjelly.org/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/163_Little_Birds_in_Little_Cages.abc 2024-11-23 231842 UT
K: F
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w: 1.~Lit-tle birds in lit-tle ca-ges Sing when sum-mer birds are fled;
w: 2.~In their ca-ges what a plea-sure Oft-en seem the lit-tle birds!
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w: Lit-tle words on lit-tle pa - ges Speak when wing-ed words are dead.
w: On their pa-ges, too what plea - sure Oft-en flows from lit-tle words.
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