The Bird On My Head

Album

Single

Label

Liberty Records

Genre

Novelty

Duration

10:00

Composer(s)

Ross Bagdasarian

Entered Chart

Jul 7, 1958

Peak Date

Jul 28, 1958

Released

June 19, 1958

Recorded

March 12, 1958

Catalog #

Liberty 55140

B-Side

Hey There Moon

"The Bird on My Head" is a 1958 novelty song by Ross Bagdasarian.

(words in brackets are sung by the bird)

I'm just sittin' in a vacant lot with a bird sittin' on my head
I'm just sittin' in a vacant lot with a bird sittin' on my head
Wicked, wicked, cruel, cruel world
What have you done to me?
I belong in someone's arms (and I belong in a tree)

Wicked, wicked, cruel, cruel world
This is no kind of life
I should have a house and bed (and I should have me a wife)

We're just sittin' in a vacant lot and we haven't got a dime
The bird and me, lonely as can be, we're together all the time

Wicked, wicked, cruel, cruel world
What have you done to me?
I belong in someone's arms (and I belong in a tree)

Wicked, wicked, cruel, cruel world
What I say is no lie
We've been sittin' here so long (that I forgot how to fly)

I'm just sittin' in a vacant lot (and I'm sittin' on his head)
(both) The things we want we haven't got need a tree and house and bed

(both) Wicked, wicked, cruel, cruel world
What have you done to me?
(He belongs in someone's arms) and he belongs in a tree

(both) Wicked, wicked, cruel, cruel world
This is no kind of life
(He should have a house and bed) and he should have him a wife

Wicked, wicked, cruel, cruel world
What have you done to me?
I belong in someone's arms
FADE
(and I belong in a tree)