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The Owl and the Tanager

Sufjan Stevens

All Delighted People

2010

Wrapped in a blanket of red
The owl and the tanager said
The owl and the tanager said
One waits until the hour is death

there's a tanager that filled my frame
one morning this past spring
he's gone now but i still hear him sing
and waiting at this window
it sometimes

the blades
We are spirals curved in the tanager's cage
Until he presses the lightness of bone and we fall
For no one
For no one
For no one at all

English Country Garden

Jimmie Rodgers

Best of Jimmie Rodgers [DJ Specialist]

1998

of some that we know 
Those we miss you'll surely pardon 
Bobolink, cuckoo and quail 
Tanager and cardinal 
Bluebird, lark, thrush and nightingale

Make a big entrance I slide down yo banister
Fly like bird and I'm bright like a tanager
Card gets declined that's the only thing stopping me
36 cents

Out in these woods surrounding Flat Rock Brook
Where Scarlet Tanagers show off
A reddish thrush is skulking under some trees
Where I'm expecting us

adjust

The Scarlet Tanager flies south
From Pennsylvania to the coasts of Brazil
Oh how I envy the songs in her mouth
As she sits on my windowsill

are being really stinky
Just because you're having some problems with your winky
So before you go and rape my tanager,
I'm gonna have to ask you

asked her if she need a manager
Go out and look for her, flame-colored tanager

You know I'm birding, baby (birdsong)
Where my binoculars at?