Lazy? You betcher ass! We'd never bother finding this, & running it merely because it's raining here, in FM Dee Jay fashion, but having encountered it:And while we're stealing things from their post-YouTube source, we also spotted this one at Cogitamus. It's Two For One Day!
Yellow Bird, sung here by The Mills Brothers, is a traditional Haitian tune based on a French berceuse, or cradle song. The lyrics were originally a poem, written in 1883--in Creole--by legendary Haitian poet and politician Oswald Durand, who'd been imprisoned for criticizing local political leaders. (Ahem.) The song was originally titled Choucoune, the nickname of a young woman named Marie-Noël Bélizaire who'd captured Durand's imagination and could inspire him to dream of sunlight and birds and the freedom of open skies--even in his darkest hours.
Make it THREE-4-1!
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