Burl Ives - Saturday Night Lyrics

Burl Ives Lyrics

"Saturday Night"

Saturday night and Sunday, too
True-love on my mind
But Monday mornin' good and soon
The white man's got me gwine

Blue jay pulled a four-horse plow
Sparrow, why can't you?
'Cause my legs is little and long
And they might get broke in two

Redbird sittin' on a sycamore limb
Singin' out his soul
A big black snake crawled up that tree
And swallowed that poor boy whole

Wild geese flyin' through the air
Through the sky a blue
They're now a-floatin' where the south-wind blows
So why not me and you?

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Writer(s): Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne

album: "A Collection Of Ballads And Folk Songs, Volume 1" (1945)

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