Annotation:Free a Little Bird
Tune properties and standard notation
FREE A LITTLE BIRD. Old-Time, Song and Breakdown. USA; Eastern Tenn. The lyric begins:
I'm as free a little bird as I can be,
I'm as free a little bird as I can be,
I'll build my nest in the sour apple tree,
Where those bad boys will never bother me.
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Recorded sources: Old Homestead OHCS 191, "Dykes Magic City Trio" [1] (Eastern Tenn.) {originally recorded for a Brunswick 78 in 1927}. Columbia 15498 (78 RPM), Roane County Ramblers (1929). County 403, Roane County Ramblers (Eastern Tenn.) {1929}. Marimac 9008, The Lazy Aces - "Sill Lazy After All These Years" (1986. Version originally from Clarence Ashley & Fred Price).