Birds On The Table

(album: New Songs From The Briarpatch - 1977)

I went down to Barbados a year ago. We had a beautiful holiday together, and we stayed in a nice hotel where they brought breakfast to our room on a nice big tray and each room had a kind of an outdoor table. It was beautiful to sit there and have breakfast but the second you walked away from the table whrrrrrr! every bird in the Caribbean came down looking to score. I decided it was worth a song to write for my kids, and Angel and I are gonna do it for you...

Birds on the table picking at the crumbs
Look out birdies when the housemaid comes
She's gonna catch you eating when she comes to clean the room
She's gonna rattle your feathers with a three-foot broom
In the morning when the sun comes up above the sea
In the morning when my lady loves me
Birds on the juice glass sitting on the rim
Thanks for the juice it could use a little gin
Barbados blackbird what he likes the most
Is telling all the sparrows that's the butter for the toast
In the morning when the sun comes up above the sea
In the morning when my lady loves me
O they're gonna finish up the coffee
O a little bacon tastes great
O it only needs a little pepper
Every little bird is gonna polish up his plate
Birds on the table talking while I eat
Hello baby, what a funny place to meet
Pecking on the table, pecking on the floor
Telling me tomorrow try to leave a little more
In the morning when the sun comes up above the sea
In the morning when my lady loves me
O they're gonna finish up the coffee
O a little bacon tastes great
O it only needs a little pepper
Every little bird is gonna polish up his plate
Birds on the table talking while I eat
Hello baby, what a funny place to meet
Pecking on the table, pecking on the floor
Telling me tomorrow try to leave a little more
In the morning when the sun comes up above the sea
In the morning when my lady loves me