MOCK THE MOCKING BIRD

(L) Mort Dixon, (M) Sam Stept


As recorded by:
Piccadilly Revels Band, Dir. Ray Starita
V. Jack Hart
Recorded 29th December 1926



If you’re blue, weary too
Here’s the only thing to do
Just mock the mocking bird
Mock the mocking bird song

If you lose, never win
Now’s the time to start right in
To mock the mocking bird
Mock the mocking bird song

I have had my share of trouble
No one’s had more
What a fight it’s been
To keep the wolf from the door

Geese fly high, geese fly low
Home is south, that’s where I go
To mock the mocking bird
Mock the mocking bird song




(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM 
Record Collection by Bill Huntley - November 2013)