BALTIMORE ORIOLE
(Hoagy Carmichael (m) / Paul Francis Webster (l) 1942)

Hoagy Carmichael 1942

Also sung by:
Carmen MacRae
Frances Langford
Gary Crosby
Jackie Messina
Shannon Forsell
John Mellencamp
Prudence Johnson
Laura Collins
George Harrison
Bob Dorough
Chris Conner
Bob Dorough
Judy Henske
Liza Lee
Lorez Alexandria
Pat Thomas
Chris Connor
Jennifer Lee
Diane Hubka
Mia Nicholson
Elizabeth Carpenter
Sophia Berkal-Sarbit
Shea Breaux Wells
Barbara Lea
And many others



Baltimore Oriole
Took a look at the mercury, forty below.

No life for a lady
To be draggin’ her feathers around in the snow.

Leavin’ me blue, off she flew
To the Tangipaho, down in Louisiana.

Where the two timin’ Jaybird
Met the divine Miss O.

I’d like to ruffle his plumage
That Baltimore Oriole.

Messed around with that big guy
‘Til he singed her wings.

Forgivin’ is easy it’s a woman like, now and then
Could happen to, thing.

Send her back home
Home ain’t home without her warbling.

How she can sing
Make a lonely man happy, Baltimore Oriole.

Come down from that bough
Fly to your daddy now.

(bridge)

Send her back home, and alone
Home ain’t home without her warbling.

How she can sing
Make a lonely man happy, Baltimore Oriole.

Come down from the bough
Fly to your daddy now.



(Transcribed by David Story - October 2013)