Story Behind The Song

Ever wonder where the birds sleep at night?

Song Description

Where the day birds sleep and what the night birds do.

Lyrics

Where the birds sleep-

The birds that have the daylight shift,
the twitterers and singers,
the little hatch, the speedy swift,
and robins, spring's harbingers,
all find a perch when darkness falls,
in ivy growing up on walls
or hidden in the tops of trees,
protected from the cooling breeze.
And there they snuggle up and keep
each other warm and go to sleep.

The heron and the egret,
the willet and the stilt
have hides in places secret,
in clumps of reeds and silt.
With plover, loon and curlew
they rest till morning's dew
lies heavy on each blade of grass
and glints like tiny shards of glass
in early morning's rising sun
to show that day has now begun.

While daytime's birds are fast asleep
the night birds have been working.
The owl has hunted things that creep;
in darkest night he's lurking.
And nightingales have sung all night
they fill the dark with pure delight
in thicket, wood and grove,
while blackbirds trill a song of love
like rippling water turned to song
in early dawn all summer long.