Baltimore Oriole (Birds of a Feather) - Carmen McRae

Baltimore Oriole

Took one look at that mercury, forty below

No life for a lady

To be draggin' her feathers around in the snow

Leaving her mate, she flew-strate

To the Tangipaho

Where a two — timin' blackbird

Met the divine Miss O

I’d like to ruffle his plumage

That Baltimore Oriole

Messed around with that big guy

Till he singed her wings

Forgivin' is easy — it’s a woman like, now and then

Could happen to thing

Send her back home

Home ain’t home without her warbling

Make a lonely man happy, Baltimore Oriole

Come down from that bough

Fly back to me now.

Send her back home

Home ain’t home without her warbling

Make a lonely man happy, Baltimore Oriole

Come down from that bough

Fly back to me now.

Baltimore Oriole