We have Something to Say

I’m a blue bird. Don’t you see

Me sitting on this apple tree,
I left my nest an hour ago
To look for bugs and worms, you
know;
And now I know the very thing -
That while I’m waiting I will sing,
Oh! Beautiful and balmy spring.
 I’m a woodpecker – a bird
Whose sound through woods and dales is
heard
I tap, tap, tap, with noisy glee,
To test the bark of every tree.
I saw a rainbow stretching gay,
Across the sky, the other day;
And someone said, ‘Good bye to rain,
The woodpecker has come again.’
I am a robin, very brown
And big and plump and smooth
and round.
My chest is pretty, bright and red
And see this top knot on my head!
I heard the boys awhile ago
Shooting robins o’er the snow,
And flew away in trembling fear
And thought I’d hide from them in
here.
 I’m the lark and early rise
To greet the sun - God of the skies,
And upright cleave the freshening
air,
To sail in regions still more fair.
Who could not soar on lusty wing,
His Maker’s praises thus to sing?
 I am the nightingale,
In music I excel the lark,
She comes at dawn, I come at dark,
And when the stars are shining bright,
I sing the praises of the night.
Oh! In a chorus sweet we’ll sing,
And wake the echoes of the spring.
 Word Meanings

 Plump - having a full rounded shape

 Knot - a fastening made by looping a piece of string, rope and tightening it.
 Trembling - shaking
 Dales - a valley
 Glee - great delight, happiness
 Gay - happy and carefree
 Upright – sitting or standing with the back straight
 Cleave – split 
 Lusty - full of strength
 Excel – be exceptionally good at something
 Dawn – the first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise
 Chorus – a part of a song which is repeated after each verse
 Echoes - a sound caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to
the listener.