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Feed The Birds

from The Closing of the Year by Bill McKinley

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This is one of my al!-time favorite songs, and I recently learned that is was What Disney’s favorite, too. I still get goosebumps listening to Christopher Marlowe’s arrangement. BTW, it was also Scott Barnes favorite song as a child; he thinks his mother was frightened by a Jane Darwell film during his conception—don’t ask.

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LYRICS - FEED THE BIRDS
(As recorded by Bill McKinley)

Early each day to the steps of Saint Paul's
The little old bird woman comes
In her own special way to the people she calls, Come, buy my bags full of crumbs.
Come feed the little birds
Show them you care
And you'll be glad if you do
Their young ones are hungry
Their nests are so bare
All it takes is tuppence from you

Feed the birds
Tuppence a bag
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag
Feed the birds
That's what she cries
While overhead
Her birds fill the skies

All around the cathedral
The saints and apostles
Look down as she sells her wares
And although you can't see them
You know they are smiling
Each time someone shows that he cares

Though her words
Are simple and few
Listen, listen
She’s calling to you
Feed the birds
Tuppence a bag
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag

Although you can't see them
You know they are smiling
Each time someone shows that he cares

Though her words
Are simple and few
Listen, listen
She’s calling to you
Feed the birds
Tuppence a bag
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag

credits

from The Closing of the Year, released December 1, 1996
FEED THE BIRDS
(3:59) Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman-Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)
Piano-Christopher Marlowe

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DaddyB (Bill McKinley) is a multitalented singer, dancer, choreographer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and entertainer.

As an openly-gay performer since 1990 (long before it was acceptable or fashionable), DaddyB counts among his proudest accomplishments his performances on behalf of equal civil rights, LGBT causes, and HIV/AIDS education.

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