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Big Blue Bird of Happiness is another complicated love song that I always love to play because it just reminds me why you love your children no matter what. “Love is simple, to quote a phrase”…yeah, I guess—it is simple and complicated.

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Big Blue Bird of Happiness
J Shogren (Jahajunti music, ASCAP, 2010)

The big blue bird of happiness
Loves a little blue girl in a long red dress
Who loves his big blue heart to death…Any chance she can
All the windows I opened up
She’s a little quicker, she nailed them all shut
I guess I can’t blame all my bad luck…On him again

And the big blue bird of happiness…Has got eyes redder than the sun
He found he can’t talk down the moon…With his yellow tongue
Everyone knows
Around here the wind never blows

In the big blue sky of emptiness
Smiles a little blue girl nevertheless
Laughs a big blue bird at his lack of success…As he tries and tries again

And the big blue bird of happiness…Is flying circles all around the sun
By now he should know you can’t talk down the moon
With his yellow tongue
Everyone knows
Around here the wind never blows
Around here the wind never blows

And the big blue bird of happiness…Has got eyes redder than the sun
By now he should know he can’t talk down the moon
…With his yellow tongue
Everyone knows
Around here the wind never blows
Around here the wind never blows
Around here the wind never blows….

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from Me and Genghis Khan & Big Blue Bird of Happiness: TSS Revisited #2, released October 6, 2021
Big Blue Bird of Happiness - JSShanghai’d Shanghai’d Musicians and technical support
Mandy (Bohlender) Griffin—vocals; Dan Tinker—vocals; Shaun Kelley—bass; Andy Phreaner—Drums; Jalan Crossland—lead guitar; J Shogren—vocals, guitars, misc. Original recordings at Thunderground Sound Studio (Laramie, WY); Dan Tinker, engineer; New recordings and remixing by J Shogren at the Stump (Laramie, WY); Remastered by David Benyamin (Paris, France), who also provided great suggestions on my mixes. Original is on Bird Bones & Muscle (2010)

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