Pretty Bird - Hazel Dickens

Fly away you little pretty bird

Fly fly away

Fly away little pretty bird

And pretty you’ll always stay

I see in your eyes a promise

Your own tender love you’d bring

But fly away little pretty bird

Cold runneth the spring

Loves own tender flames warm this meeting

And love’s tender songs you’d sing

But fly away little pretty bird

And pretty you’ll always stay

I cannot make you no promises

For love is such a delicate thing

But fly away little pretty bird

For he’d only clip your wings

Fly fly away you little pretty bird

Fly fly away

Fly away little pretty bird

And pretty you’ll always stay

Fly far beyond the dark mountain

To where you’d b free evermore

Fly away littl pretty bird

Where the cold winter winds don’t blow