Birds!  Anyone who follows Julia on Facebook well knows that she is definitely into birds.  We have in our back and side yards an entire mélange of feeders and boast the best restaurant in town.  Blue Jays, Cardinals, Chickadees, Tit mouses, (Titmice?) Woodpeckers, Golden Finches, Doves and, of course, Sparrows.  I could go on and on.  We spend a small fortune on seed for these fascinating little creatures and it’s well worth it.  We placed the feeders right outside of each of our dining room windows so we eat breakfast and lunch with them every day.

By dinner they’re all back home in their nests probably watching the Audubon Society channel on their little bird TVs. Yes, we are definitely for the birds.

So, it was only natural that I write a new Christmas song placing a bird into the center of the action.  In this adventure we imagine that the wise men and the shepherds and perhaps Joseph all get together there in the manger and decide that the world must be told the GOOD NEWS.  But without telephones, TV, newspapers, pony express, or the internet, how can this be efficiently done?

But there, on this fateful morning, as the babe lay sleeping in his straw cradle, a little bird perched up in the rafters of the manger begins to sing her song.

Hence, Bird Song.

Bird Song

Music and Lyrics by Peter Link

Silver bird fly
Spiritual bird sing
Bird song
The Christ is born
Spread the word
Let fly
The song of peace
Sweet release
Sail on silver bird
Across the world
Spread the word
A new age dawns
As the silver bird streaks
Across the red sun
Across the rising sun

Sail on silver bird
Across the world
Sail on little bird
And take this message
That the son of God
Has joined us on this earth
And brings us nothing but the good word

It’s the word of God
He brings to all
It’s a kind of peace
That lasts forever
It’s a love that radiates
From one to one another
Never fading away

Sail and sing your song, Bird
As you soar among the mountains
As you wind along the rivers of life
Sing it to each heart
Sing into the mind of mankind

Silver bird fly
From this stable
Humble
Where Christ is born
Spread the word
Go forth
His Kingdom come
A pendulum
Back and forth between
The prophesy
And the unforeseen
The time has come
A new age dawns
And the world will now change
From one of sorrow
To one abounding hope

Sail on silver bird
Across the world
Sail on little bird
And take this message
That the son of God
Has joined us on this earth
And brings us nothing but the good word

Sail and sing your song, Bird
As you wing your way through cities
Through the masses and the chaos of life
Sing it to each soul
Sing it to the shambles of man

Silver bird fly
Unto the people
Tell them
The Christ is born
Silver bird fly
And sing your song
The Christ is born
This Christmas morn
The Christ is born
This Christmas morn
The Christ is born
This Christmas morn
The Christ is born!