Baltimore Oriole

Baltimore Oriole
Took a look at the mercury
Forty below
No life for a lady
To be draggin' her feathers
Around in the snow

Leavin' me blue
Off she flew
To the Tangipahoa
Where a two-timin' jaybird
Met the divine miss-o
I'd like to ruffle his plumage

Baltimore Oriole
Messed around with that big guy
'Til he singed her wing
Forgivin' is easy
It's a woman like
Now and then
Could happen to sing

Send her back home
Home ain't home without her warbling
How she could sing
Make a lonely man happy
Baltimore Oriole

Send her back home
Home ain't home without her warbling
How she could sing
Make a lonely man happy

Baltimore Oriole
Come down from that bough
Fly to your daddy now