Crooked Still - Pretty Bird video free download

Crooked Still covers the Hazel Dickens tune "Pretty Bird" off of Crooked Still's album "Friends of Fall."

LYRICS

PRETTY BIRD

(Hazel Dickens)

Fly away little pretty bird

Fly, fly away

Fly away little pretty bird

And pretty you'll always stay

I see in your eyes a promise

Your own tender love you'll bring

But fly away little pretty bird

Cold runneth the spring

Love's own tender flames warm this meeting

And love's tender song you sing

But fly away little pretty bird

And pretty you'll always sing

I cannot make you no promise

Love is such a delicate thing

Fly away little pretty bird

For he'd only clip your wings

Fly away little pretty bird

Fly, fly away

Fly away little pretty bird

And pretty you'll always stay

Fly far beyond the dark mountains

To where you'll be free evermore

Fly away little pretty bird

Where the cold winter winds don't blow

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Note by Hazel Dickens:

'When I wrote "Pretty Bird" I was going through a lot of changes. Women have always been so put down and conditioned to believe certain lies about themselves that when I finally met a supposedly liberated man who was willing to accept me on an equal basis, I found it difficult to believe. Out of all these mixed feelings and ponderings, I wrote "Pretty Bird"'.