BIRD RETURN ?1997Judy Fjell(BMI)

CHORUS: The birds return in the spring, I love to hear them sing
Their colors fill the sky, I love to see them fly (Repeat)

First the white-crowned sparrows announce the season?s change
Then the meadowlarks start staking out their home upon the range
Bald eagles snatch the spawning trout, mergansers dip and dive
The geese are honking all night long, saying ?Nesting time?s arrived!? CHORUS

Finches, warblers, siskins, phoebes, juncoes too
Avocets, godwits, yellowlegs, stilts, pintails flying through
Phalaropes spin and splash, the redwings tweedle-dee
There are yellow heads in the cattails just as far as the eye can see CHORUS

Kingbirds on the fencewires, bluebirds in the pines
Herons in the rookeries, pelicans fly in graceful lines
Sandhill cranes stalk the fields, snipes winnow in the sky
You know the goldeneyes have long gone north when the swallows come to fly CHORUS

Bobolinks and buntings appear and disappear
Owls are dancing in the sky, you know summer?s almost here
Osprey dive and grab their prey, kestrel do the same
Killdeer run through the young green fields singing out their names CHORUS

BRIDGE:
Sometimes I feel discouraged about the world around
Unkindness and injustice, they bring my spirits down
Then a nighthawk diving in the sky with a whistling on his wings
Restores my soul in darkness, oh it makes me want to sing CHORUS

CHORUS:
4/4 Am / Am / G / E7-Am /
Am / Am / G / 2/4 E7 / 4/4 Am //
VERSES:
4/4 Am / Am / G / E7-Am /
Am / Am / G / E7-Am //
BRIDGE:
C / C / E7 / E7 /
F / F / E7 / E7 //

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