Little Birds Lyrics - Dirt Farmer - 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