Little Birds - Levon Helm

Little birds are singing all around me, on every bush and vine

My pleasures would be doubled if I could call you mine

As I’ve sat here the whole night through till now it’s a breakin' day

I’m awaitin' for an answer, kind lady what do you say?

If I could tell to you my mind, I would choose a single life

For I would never thought that it suited for me to be your wife

So he wrote to her an answer and he sent it by full speed

«You know I once did love you dearly, I once loved you indeed

«But since that time my mind has changed, I loved another way

I love a pretty fair damsel more suitable for me»

And it had not been, but a very short time 'til this maiden’s mind did change

She wrote him a letter, «Kind sir I am ashamed

«If ever I have slighted you, or ever done you wrong

I am so far away from you that I can’t hear you moan»

Little birds are singing all around me, on every bush and vine

My pleasures would be doubled if i could call you mine;

My pleasures would be doubled if i could call you mine