Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Publication Date
12-1-1926
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Black bird Black bird singing the blues all day
Right outside of my door
Blackbird Blackbird
Why do you sit and say
“There’s no sunshine in store”
All thru the winter you hung around
Now I begin to feel homeward bound
Blackbird Blackbird gotta be on my way
Where there’s sunshine galore
[Verse 2]
Bluebird Bluebird calling me far away
I’ve been longing for you
Bluebird Bluebird What do I hear you say
“Skies are turning to blue”
I’m like a flower that's fading here
Where ev’ry hour is one long tear
Bluebird Bluebird this is my lucky day
Now my dreams will come true
[Chorus]
Pack up all my care and woe here I go singing low
Bye Bye Blackbird
Where somebody waits for me sugar’s sweet so is she
Bye Bye Blackbird
No one here can love and understand me
Oh what hard luck stories they all hand me
Make my bed and light the light I’ll arrive late tonight
Blackbird Bye Bye
Recommended Citation
Dixon, Mort and Henderson, Ray, "Bye Bye Blackbird" (1926). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1825.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1825
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Title page
Song with Ukulele Arrangement
Lyric by Mort Dixon, Music by Ray Henderson
Jerome H. Remick & Co. New York~ Detroit
Copyright MCMXXVI by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York & Detroit
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