theres a birdie little birdie come and sing me your song got a short time to stay here and a long time to be gone im a long way from old baby seed in my old kentucky home although both my parents are dead and gone and a place to call my home theres a birdie little birdie come and sing me your song got a short time to stay here and a long time to be gone now ill rather be a sailor way out upon the sea when been home a married man with a baby on my knee for a married man this is trouble and the single voice is done i expected little sea golf though my days on earth are done theres a birdie little birdie come and sing me your song got a short time to stay here and a long time to be gone ill rather be in some dark hollow where the sun dont ever shine and to say you love another when you promise to be mine theres a birdie little birdie come and sing me your song got a short time to stay here and a long time to be gone theres a birdie little birdie come and sing me your song got a short time to stay here and a long time to be gone