Jerry Reed - Bird Lyrics
Well my throat was dry and I was getting' late
And I was at this bat on the interstate
When this guy with a bird on his shoulder walked in the door
And he proceeded to tell me the strangest thing
He said, "Sir this bird of mine can sing like no other bird
Well I just looked at the guy and said "Oh really?"
And he turned to the bird and said"Do ole Willie"
When that bird started singing I almost hit the floor.
Whiskey River take my mind
Don't let her memory torture me
Whiskey River don't run dry
You're all I got to take care of me
Well if that ain't the durndest thing
I thought, son, what a heck of a thing
A man could get rich making that bird sing
I said, "I'm just sittin' here with two weeks pay
And I'd probably blow it all anyway
I'll buy that bird If he'll do one more song."
Maybe I didn't hold you quite as often as I should have
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
I said, "well that does it sir, yep
I'd like to buy that bird
Would $500.00 take him off your hands?"
Well, he thought for a while and he said, "alright"
He handed me the bird and he said "goodnight"
Counted the money and out the door he ran
I was thinkin' I'd found the rainbow's end
My ship would soon be rolling in
When that bird sailed out the door
And he was gone
And as I watched him leave I got boilin' mad
'Cause I knew right then that I'd been had
And as he faded in the night he was singing this song
On the road again
I just can't wait to get on the road again (Somebody stop that bird!)
The life I love is making money with my friend
And I can't wait to get on the road again
Other Lyrics by Artist
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- Jerry Reed - City Of New Orleans
- Jerry Reed - Mind Your Love
- Jerry Reed - Crude Oil Blues
- Jerry Reed - Mystery Train
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Jerry Reed Bird Comments
I always loved Jerry Reed's story telling to music. Such a great great man and musician.
Get me that bird
Like no other biird you have ever heaard BuFORE!
Love it this back in my day 50 Year. Thank you YouTube
r.i.p jerry a great singer
Rap horrified pushy old women, so it's not all bad, but it doesn't belong in country.
Funny Actor, Good Man, Kind,... Thanks, the Persian Kid of MN
Great Singer 📻 Songwriter 👌 An American legend and Hero 🇺🇸💪 Awesome Actor/Comedian 😀too So funny and humorous 🤣Great Humanitarian and Person 🙂 RIP 🇨🇱🇺🇸💪 Jerry Gone but not forgotten 👏
Jerry Reed was definitely a unique singer
he is so hot
funny text
i love jerry hes a fukin legend.
Who was doing the willie and Jones impressions? The song itself is better than both of those songs its singing about 10 fold
Jerry Reed himself did those impressions. He got his start in part due to his ability to sound like others.
@Brett Sowards thank you for that, he sounds pretty darn good at both willie and george, I'm just recently getting into jerry Reed's music besides one song I've known for a long time. I'm starting to think he maybe become my favorite only maybe 2nd to Jonny cash only due to the ammount songs cash released.
Cheers
especially a ginger bird! so i did this little bit .... https://youtu.be/UdXRMyRDi6s
lol you can't stop that bird !! it's gonna do what it wants to ................
LOL
lol call me a fool but I still love that bird! LOL
Mr Reed was one in ten million
pure entertainment, fuck taylor swift and all them boy toy nashvile idiots
My. 35. I'm a little country town in Kentucky. Everyone. Play these songs in there truck
That's a damn good George Jones impression.
It was so good the first time we played this song for my uncle he really thought it was George Jones!
Somebody get me a bb gun
I love this song
good muziek
East bound and down
That team up with Willie. Amazing
Willy n
I swear this guy prob my great grand father
Jerry Reed is the most underrated guitarist on the planet!
I'm still in the womb and love classic country and classic rock. Give me undeserved praise.
SOMEBODY STOP THAT BIRD....MY BIRD ... MY 500 DOLLARS......SOMEBODY GIVE NE A BB GUN ....I WANT THAT BIRD!!!!!
YA I BET I WOULD BE PISSED ALSO
R.I.P Jerry Reed
We will see you in the good ole skies Snowman... When we're all heavenbound and truckin (BTW I am 14 and the time I posted this was in 2019 so would that prove anything?)
Its a fantastic piece of art, listening to this wonder from chile.
Reed had more talent than any of us, but had this knack for saying exactly what most of us would say in the same situation. ''That's mah $500''! ''Buy me a drink, somebody! Yes suh!
i stopped listening to this when george jones can on. I like that song by gerge but i am trying to listen to jerry reed. This song HAD potential. :(
For some off reason, I woke up thinking about this song this morning.
Ol' Jerry sure does a pretty g ood imitation of George & W illie.
So I'm only 25 but I remember my dad listening to this song laughing his head of I miss them day's oh sorry big Jerry Reed fan rip sweetie
A GIGANTICALLY TALENTED MAN , AS A 50S KID I GREW UP LISTENING TO JERRY .. NO ONE HAS RISEN TO WRITE FUN MUSIC LIKE HE DID YET... LIKELY NEVER WILL.
Somebody stop that bird !!!!!! lol
Love that funky bassy riff it keeps going back to
Love it
its funny because on my playlist it is this song then Willie Nelson- Whiskey River!
What "146" clicked on a thumbs down on this? Must been one of these kids who Don't know or have a Clue of what Really Good music is?
2019 Gerry yer Hot
i miss this era in COUNTRY MUSIC, its sad what country has gone to in the last 12 years or so
I Love country, I'm only 14. but country is heaven, don't give a crap with that rap garbage. Thank you Jerry Reed
Rap is crap Jerry reed is one of the best
This would've been funnier if George and Willie did this song with Jerry.
Then it wouldnt sound like a bird singing. Also difficult to have them tour with Jerry Reed just to do a few bars of one song each show.
Somebody get me a B.B. gun 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂R.I.P. Jerry Reed
The WOMEN are all flat chested.
Got milk and BALLS
Or IMPEACH them all.
Why DON'T YOU JUST give the MIDDLE FINGER to EVERYONE
Holy shit, never heard this before. Daddy said Jerry Reed was forbidden. Omg XD
Smodcast brought me here
always a good song!!!
" think I'd rather eat the barrel of a double-barrel loaded shotgun than to hear that shit they call pop-country music on ninety-eight-point-one."
- Hank 3
B T 🤣
Fuck you
At least go outside !
I didn't know that the truck driver from Smokey and the bandit was a badass country singer for the longest time!
I Freakin love the guitar riff in the Hook!
When your hot your hot..LOL
Jerry rules
and i cant wait to get on the road again"
"Well if that ain't the darndest thing!"
This is for the birds!!!! :)
I'm 121 and I still love this song
Jerry Reed was country music's Robin Williams. Brilliant man.
UP I WOR LIKE HAT GIRE
QWHISCKY RIVER IS THA AND THE DAMN THISGS COME OM
I'm so lonely I need a girlfriend
R.I.P. Snowman
Jerry Reed is the grandfather of metal confirmed.
The bird would have been worth $1,000,000,000 if it could do
A Hank Williams tune.
Ripped off for sure Big Fella,RIP.
I didn't know BlackBerry made guns 40 years ago
Thank you JERRY REED For all the" good " you gave.... in music and movies ! " one of a kind " ...
Is the last "on the road again" part an impersonation? It sounds só much like him
*R.I.P COUNTRY MUSIC*
and who cught that bird i candt wait to get on the road again
im here for gas well he said no your here for feul yes sir
dotnt get fuel there we call in gas traerlers
omg... Best song ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY BIRD!!!!
i am a bird lover and that poor bird
AND OUT THE DOOR HE RAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jerry Reed is good
This guy was too great for words.....the best of all entertainers
real country is a dying genre
Unfortunately it kind of died already and was replaced with pop music. Modern country music is just pop music.
Alan Jackson was about the last of what has now passed, I thought Josh Turner was going to keep it alive but they really won't give him the air play. It's all driven by the yuppies, you can't make request anymore, and they won't let artists make their own records anymore. There's no way that an artist that made good country music could not sell a ton of records. Unfortunately they record companies are not going to let it happen and the small independent record companies don't have the money or resources to get it out there to the masses.
B.B. Guns
somebody get me my BB gun !!!!
im tree years old, me wove jerry reed.
100% Authentic Creativity
love that song
I know there's a lot of kids saying "I'm only (#) years old and I love old country" and most of them don't have a reason. the last time I heard this was four years ago the last time I talked to my granddad... and I still love all this music... I'm now 16 and I miss him every day. see ya on the other side pop
I heard this in the McDonald's drive through 😂😂😂 I started singing along when it said on the road again. It reminds me of my beagle. He ran like hell on the road again
Snowman has the best songs, comedy, and I miss the fun. Thank you for sharing your talents.
96.9 is a. Station were you can listen to this
14 raised on this kind of music one of the worlds greatest guitar player R.I.P jerry reed dont stop playin in heaven.