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BALTIMORE ORIOLE
Copyright © 1942, 1944 by Songs Of Peer, Ltd. and Warner Bros. Inc. Words and Music by HOAGY CARMICHAEL
Copyright Renewed
and PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER
Slow Drag tempo
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Bal - ti - more o - ri - ole took a look at the mer - cu - ry, for - ty be - low, no
Bal - ti - more o - ri - ole messed a - roun’ with that big mouth ’til he singed her wing, for -

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life for a la - dy to be drag - gin’ her feath - ers a - round in the snow.
giv - in’ is eas - y, it’s a wom - an - like, now - and - then - could - hap - pen thing.

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 (Female:)Leav-ing 
(Male:) Leav - ing me blue, off she flew to the Tan - gi - pa - ho, where a two - tim - in’ black - bird
her mate, she flew straight
Send her back home, home ain’t home with - out her war - bl - ing; make a lone - ly man hap - py.

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met the di - vine Miss O! I’d like to ruf - fle his plum - age! Bal - ti - more o - ri -

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ole, come down from that bough, fly back to me now.
(Fly to your dad - dy now.)

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