Birdowner (as seen on t.v.)

Steve Kilbey / Grant McLennan
(Yeblik Songs/Complete Music)

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Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Aug. 27, 2015]

These are weird times
There's this widow in my street
Turns her husbands into birds
They've got claws instead of feet
A cage is in the garden
There's feathers in my phone box
Screeching, squawking, it sounds like talking
Damn noise never stops

Birdowner
Birdowner

See her at the market
She's buying up all the seed
I walk right up and ask her
"Is there anything you need?"
I go "coo coo coo"
What else can I do
I go "coo coo coo coo coo"
What else can I do

Birdowner
Birdowner

I go "coo coo coo"
What else can I do
Every night she brings me in
And I fly around the room
There's a parrot that was a doctor
There's a finch that was a clerk
Two black starlings, former darlings
Changed the milkman just for a lark
The cops arrived at dawn
Things were getting out of hand
It seems she had her eyes on
Every single man
Fumbling with their handcuffs
They wanted her to fry
She was waiting in a garden
Watched them piggies fly

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