{"id":169,"date":"2021-05-10T02:04:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T02:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=169"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:02:18","slug":"bye-bye-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/bye-bye-blackbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Blackbird &#8211; END"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Henderson and Dixon &#8211; Key of C &#8211; SLOW AND BLUESY<\/p>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea79a8eeca40083108616' value='69ea79a8eeca40083108616'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea79a8eeca40083108616' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea79a8eeca40083108616' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea79a8eeca40083108616' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea79a8eeca40083108616' ><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">&#8220;Bye Bye Blackbird&#8221; is a feel-good song; it was written in 1926 by composer Ray Henderson and lyricist Mort Dixon, and sung by Eddie Cantor. According to Don Tyler in his 2007 book Hit Songs 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era, it was Henderson&#8217;s third hit of the year. First popularized by Eddie Cantor, this standard has been recorded by numerous artists. A full arrangement (by Jeff Muston) was published in London by Francis, Day &amp; Hunter at 3s6d, copyright 1954; the original was copyright 1926 by Jerome H. Remick &amp; Co and 1948 by Remick Music Corp of New York. Gene Austin&#8217;s original version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005; Josephine Baker&#8217;s version is best forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The song retained its popularity through the Great Depression, probably because of its optimism, and has featured in a number of films, including most notably and unsurprisingly the 1953 biopic The Eddie Cantor Story. The following year it reached #1 in the UK, in a manner of speaking. Boogie woogie pianist Winifred Attwell included &#8220;Bye Bye Blackbird&#8221; in her instrumental medley &#8220;Let&#8217;s Have Another Party,&#8221; which held the top spot for five weeks. &gt;&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">PLAY LIKE AN OLD BLUES SONG<br \/>\n<\/span>ABOUT THE TEMPO OF HAUL AWAY JOE or AMAZING GRACE<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-c.jpg\" width=\"9%\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-a7.jpg\" width=\"9%\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Inconsolata, monospace; font-size: 1.0625rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-g7.jpg\" width=\"9%\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Inconsolata, monospace; font-size: 1.0625rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-dm.jpg\" width=\"9%\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Inconsolata, monospace; font-size: 1.0625rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/chords\/tenor\/tenor-am.jpg\" width=\"9%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>[C] Pack up all your [A7] cares and woe.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>[Dm] Here I go [C] singing\u00a0 low,<br \/>\n[C] <\/strong><strong>bye [Dm7] bye [C] black [G7] bird.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>[Dm] Where someone waits for me;\u00a0\u00a0 [Am] <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Sugar&#8217;s sweet and [G7] so is she,<\/strong><strong> bye bye [C] blackbird.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>{ CHORUS }\u00a0 [C7] No one here can love and [A7] understand me.\u00a0 [Dm] <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Oh what hard luck stories they all [G7] hand me.<br \/>\n[C] Make my bed and [A7] light the light;\u00a0 [G] I&#8217;ll arrive [Gm] late tonight,<br \/>\n[Dm7] black bird [G7] bye [C] bye.\u00a0 [Dm7]\u00a0 [G7]\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>[REPEAT FROM TOP &#8211; SPEED UP]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Henderson and Dixon &#8211; Key of C &#8211; SLOW AND BLUESY PLAY LIKE AN OLD BLUES SONG ABOUT THE TEMPO OF HAUL AWAY JOE or AMAZING GRACE [C] Pack up all your [A7] cares and woe.\u00a0\u00a0 [Dm] Here I go [C] singing\u00a0 low, [C] bye [Dm7] bye [C] black &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/bye-bye-blackbird\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bye Bye Blackbird &#8211; END<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,133,126,116,117,115,131,74,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-power-outage","category-end-songs","category-violin-parts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}