Be Like the Blue Bird

There's an old Australian bush song

That Melba used to sing

A song that always cheered me

When I was blue

Even Melba said

"This bush song was a helluva song to sing

So be quiet whilst I render it for you"

When your instinct tells you that disaster

Is approaching you faster and faster

Then be like the bluebird and sing

"Tweet tweet, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la"

When you know you're headed for the jailer

Don't allow the old face to look paler

But be like the bluebird and sing

"Tweet tweet, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la"

Be like the bluebird who never is blue

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For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

And though by other birdies in the boughs

He may be told that his efforts are perfectly lousy

He sings on and on till his troubles are through

"Tweet tweet, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la"