Listen to the Mockingbird
- Listen to the Mockingbird
Listen to the Mockingbird (1855) is an American folk song from the mid-19th century by Septimus Winner, under the pseudonym "Alice Hawthorne".
It is a mournful tune, with the singer dreaming of his sweetheart, who is dead and buried, with the mockingbird, whose song the couple once enjoyed, now singing over her grave.
The verse portion of the song was used as the instrumental intro to a number of the earlier short films by the Three Stooges, rendered in a comical way and with birds chirping. The theme for the Stooges films was later replaced with "Three Blind Mice".
The song was parodied in "The Flintstones" as a rock-and-roll tune called "Listen to the Rocking Bird".
External links
* [http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/Songs/mockingbird.html Lyrics]
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