THIS LITTLE BIRD
(John D. Loudermilk)

John D. Loudermilk - 1962
Marianne Faithfull - 1965
Nancy Sinatra - 1966
Nedra Carroll & Jewel Kilcher - 1998


There's a little bird somebody sent
Down to the earth to live on the wind
Blowing on the wind
And she sleeps on the wind
This little bird somebody sent

Light and fragile and feathered sky blue
Thin and graceful
The sun shining through
She flys so high up in the sky
Way out of reach of human eyes

Light and fragile and feathered sky blue
Thin and graceful
The sun shining through
She flys so high up in the sky
Way out of reach of human eyes

Light and fragile she's feathered sky blue
Thin and graceful
The sun shining through
And the only time
That she touches ground
Is when that little bird, little bird
Is when that little bird, little bird
Is when that little bird dies