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The Jaybird he's my _favorite_ / Of all the birds they is!
I think he's quite a stylish sight / In that blue suit of his: / An' when he' lights an' shuts his wings, / His coat's a "cutaway" -- / I guess it's only when he sings / You'd know he wuz a jay.
I like to watch him when he's lit / In top of any tree, / 'Cause all birds git wite out of it / When _he_ 'lights, an' they see / How proud he act', an' swell an' spread / His chest out more an' more, / An' raise the feathers on his head / Like it's cut pompadore!