Strange Bird

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by Jimmy Buffett and Jay Oliver



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

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 claim him

If you can't see him you can't name him

Stay on the ground or he will shoot you down

Wings on his heart, he's a strange bird



His only home is in the skies

Slicing throught the cloudy pie

Above the whole carribean

Moves the swift amphibian



Chorus:

Strange bird from a different nest

Flying low not like all of the rest

If you can't catch him you can't claim him

If you can't see him you can't name 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 witht eh 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 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 claim him

If you can't see him you can't name him

Stay on the ground or he will shoot you down

Wings on his heart, he's a strange bird



Strange bird flying low

Cross the Gulf of Mexico

Strange bird not like all of the rest

Watch out girl he's a strange bird

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