JIMMY BUFFETT - Strange Bird lyrics

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Strange Bird

By: Jimmy Buffett, Jay Oliver

1989

Half fast and seldom seen

He don't blip the radar screen

On the deck below the dune

Under the commander's moon

Strange bird from a different nest

Flying low not like all of the rest

God only knows where the strange bird goes when he's flying

Everybody's trying to find him

But they don't know where to start

The ornithologist lady says that he has wings on his heart

Chorus:

Strange bird from a different nest

Flying low not like all of the rest

If you can't catch him you can't name him

If you can't see him you can't claim him

Stay on the ground or he will shoot you down

Wings on his heart, he's a strange bird

Frequent flyer, seldom seen

High above the Caribbean

In my day I've met a few but he's the strangest bird that's true

Chorus:

Strange bird from a different nest

Flying low not like all of the rest

If you can't catch him you can't name him

If you can't see him you can't claim him

Stay on the ground or he will shoot you down

Wings on his heart, he's a strange bird

But he's in love with the lady of the waters

And she lives somewhere up around Cheauxvan

He's gonna circle high above her runway of love

Until she gives him her permission to land

Chorus:

Strange bird from a different nest

Flying low not like all of the rest

If you can't catch him you can't name him

If you can't see him you can't claim him

Stay on the ground or he will shoot you down

Wings on his heart, he's a strange bird

Watch out girl, he's a strange bird

Strange bird flying low

'Cross the Gulf of Mexico

Strange bird not like all the rest

Watch out girl he's a strange bird

Shoot you down, he's a strange bird

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a strange bird