Down Came A Blackbird Lyrics

Down Came A Blackbird lyrics

(Mark Spiro/Micheal Smotherman)

Down came a blackbird
Set on a fence
Talkin` in riddles 
Makin` no sense
Cause she`s gone
You`re baby`s gone
Down came a blackbird
Perched on pole
Took out a mirror
And said, "Son, behold"
Cause she`s gone
Your baby`s gone

Gone like a dollar spent on a drink
Head hangin` over the kitchen sink 
Gone like the wind through a cabin door
Never gonna blow that way no more
Gone like the song of a mockingbird
Laughing at every little thing he heard
Gone like a dream in a puff of smoke
She ain`t comin` back and it ain`t no joke
She`s gone
You`re baby`s gone

Down came a blackbird
Set by the fire
Said "the future`s comin` at you like a freight train
And you`re walkin` a wire"
Cause she`s gone
You`re baby`s gone

Gone like a dollar spent on a drink
Head hangin` over the kitchen sink
Gone like a dream in a puff of smoke
She ain`t comin` back and it ain`t no joke
She`s gone 
You`re baby`s gone

She says she doesn`t want a man who hangs around the house
Who doesn`t say a word unless he`s shootin` off his mouth
There`s got to be a better way to be a lovin` wife
If she stays here she`ll end up her waitress for life

Down came a blackbird 
Set on a fence
Talkin` in riddles
And makin` absolutely perfect sense
Cause she`s gone
You`re baby`s gone

Gone like a dollar spent on a drink
Head hangin` over the kitchen sink 
Gone like the wind through a cabin door
Never gonna blow that way no more
Gone like the song of a mockingbird
Laughing at every little thing he heard
Gone like a dream in a puff of smoke
She ain`t comin` back and it ain`t no joke
She`s gone
You`re baby`s gone

Down came a blackbird
Down came a blackbird