Annotation:Free a Little Bird

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 FREE A LITTLE BIRD. Old-Time, Song and Breakdown. USA; Eastern Tenn. The lyric begins: I'm as free a little bird as I can be, I'm as free a little bird as I can be, I'll build my nest in the sour apple tree, Where those bad boys will never bother me.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources: Old Homestead OHCS 191, "Dykes Magic City Trio" (Eastern Tenn.) {originally recorded for a Brunswick 78 in 1927}. Columbia 15498 (78 RPM), Roane County Ramblers (1929). County 403, Roane County Ramblers (Eastern Tenn.) {1929}. Marimac 9008, The Lazy Aces - "Sill Lazy After All These Years" (1986. Version originally from Clarence Ashley & Fred Price).

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