[COPYRIGHT
DEC
19
1870
4993]
[2nd Copy Delivered to the
MAY 8 - 1900
Music Departmenet]
To
Mlle. Christine Nilsson.
"Birdie" [19 Dec 1870]
Song.
Sung by
Mlle. Christine Nilsson.
Words by
George Cooper.
Sunb by
Mlle. Chistine Nilsson,
for whom the music was expressly composed
by
Vienna Demorest.

New York, NY: William A. Pond & Co., 547 Broadway
Cincinnati, OH: C. Y. Fonda.
Boston, MA: Koppitz Prufer & Co.
San Francisco, CA: M. Gray.
Milwaukee, WI: H. N. Hemsted & Co.
Plate No. 7967
[Source: 1870-04993@LoC]

1. Birdie flew up in a blossoming tree;
Sad was my heart as I wander’d along.
Birdie was as cheerful could be,
Breathing its life out in beautiful song.

“Summer and winter contented I live,
Hark to the lesson a birdie can give.

[REFRAIN sung after each VERSE]
Cares that fall today,
Time can ne’er repent;
Clouds will fade away,
Life, O life is sweet!
Cares that fall today
Time can ne’er repeat;
Clouds will fade away,
Life, O life is sweet!
Ah! Ah!
Ah! sweet!
Ah! sweet!

2. O but the skies were delightful and blue!
Gone were the doubts and the grief and the pain.
Bright were the roses all dimpled with dew;
Birdie sang over the lesson again.

Then in my heart sang a birdie to me,
Answering the birdie high up in the tree.