Bye Bye Blackbird

1920s popular song that became a common jam session tune in the 1950s

Composed by Ray Henderson
Year 1926
Length 32 bars
Time 4/4
Form AABA
Style Swing
Common Key F

Chords

Chord chart for the jazz standard Bye Bye Blackbird

Lyrics

Pack up all my care and woe
Here I go, singing low
Bye bye, blackbird

Where somebody waits for me
Sugar's sweet and so is he
Bye, bye, blackbird

No one here can love and understand me
Oh, what hard-luck stories they all hand me
Make my bed, light the light, I'll arrive late tonight
Blackbird, bye bye

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