Blue Valley Songbird Song Lyrics and Chords by Dolly Parton
Blue Valley Songbird
Written and Recorded by Dolly Parton
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She was born in a place
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called Blue
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Valley
At the
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foot of the Tennessee
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hills
With the
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blue birds and blue bells and
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blue mountain water
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sound of the Blue Whippoor
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will
But
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there was no
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peace in the
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valley
Her
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daddy a cruel ruthless
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man
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Used and abused her
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mind and her
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body
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mama said
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run while you
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can
So at fifteen she
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took to the
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highway
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longings and guitar in
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hand
And she
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buried herself in her
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mu-
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sic
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one thing she
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did
under
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stand
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bird and she
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writes like a
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poet
Her voice has that high lonesome
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sound
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hurts and her
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songs are the
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best way to
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show
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So the
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Blue Valley
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songbird keeps
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traveling
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around
She hopes
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someday she will
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make
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And
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everyone says that she
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will
When
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she comes to town
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crowds flock around
To see the
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girl from the Tennessee
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hills
She writes
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letters back
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home to her
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momma
In
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care of the preacher in
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town
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sacred to her so she
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reads them at
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church
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daddy
can
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not track her
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down
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bird and she
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cries like a
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baby
Whenever she turns off the
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lights
She's a
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whole lot
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lonesome and a
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little bit
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crazy
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memories and
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miseries and
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dreams gone
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awry
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blue shoes a
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blue
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llac
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side
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tied to the
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top and the
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back
Cause the
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Blue Valley
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songbird is
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singing
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night
One nighters
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honky tonks
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years flying
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by
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She's never
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made it but
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Lord knows she
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tries
Expressing the
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feelings
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she holds in
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songbird is
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night
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bird and she
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writes like a
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poet
FAQ
Who sang the the song Blue Valley Songbird?
- The song Blue Valley Songbird was sang by Dolly Parton.
Who is Dolly Parton?
- Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I'm Dolly, which led to success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), before her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s. Parton's albums in the 1990s did not sell as well, but she achieved commercial success again in the new millennium and has released albums on various independent labels since 2000, including her own label, Dolly Records. She has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
Parton's music includes Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)-certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards. She has had 25 songs reach no. 1 on the Billboard country music charts, a record for a female artist (tied with Reba McEntire). She has 44 career Top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110 career-charted singles over the past 40 years. She has garnered 11 Grammy Awards and 50 nominations, including the Lifetime Achievement Award ten Country Music Association Awards, including Entertainer of the Year and is one of only seven female artists to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award five Academy of Country Music Awards, also including Entertainer of the Year four People's Choice Awards and three American Music Awards.
In 1999, Parton was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She has composed over 3,000 songs, including "I Will Always Love You" (a two-time U.S. country chart-topper, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston), "Jolene", "Coat of Many Colors", and "9 to 5". She is also in a select group to have received at least one nomination from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, and Emmy Awards. As an actress, she has starred in films such as 9 to 5 (1980) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), for which she earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress, as well as Rhinestone (1984), Steel Magnolias (1989), Straight Talk (1992) and Joyful Noise (2012).
