Big Bird In A Small Cage

  

There was a house half way round the world

And I was invited in for a small taste of gin

There was a hall with a thousand birds long

But the biggest one of them all was in a cage too small

I asked the caretaker cause he was the maker

He looked at me and laughed, took another sip from his glass and said

Open up your ears and hearts

You put a big bird in a small cage and he'll sing you a song

That we all love to sing along

To the sound of the bird that mourns

Well it's a quarter to twelve when the boys walked in

They got their black suits on and the songs would begin

You open up your ears and hearts

You put a big bird in a small cage and he'll sing you a song

That we love to sing along

To the sound of the bird that mourns

You put a big bird in a small cage and he'll sing you a song

Patrick Watson