There was a house half way round the world <br />And I was invited in for a small taste of gin <br />There was a hall with a thousand birds long <br />But the biggest one of them all was in a cage too small<br />I asked the caretaker 'cause he was the Maker <br />He looked at me and laughed, took another sip from his glass and said <br />Open up your ears and hearts <br />You put a big bird in a small cage and he'll sing you a song <br />That we all love to sing along <br />To the sound of the bird that mourns<br /><br /> Well we rolled into town into sweet New Orleans <br />To the Apple Bell bar there was a hole in the wall <br />The ceilings weren't tall, the floors weren't grand <br />But the sound they made just warmed your heart<br />Well it was a quarter to twelve when the boys walked in <br />They got their black suits on and the songs would begin <br />You open up your ears and hearts <br />You put a big bird in a small cage and he'll sing you a song <br />That we all love to sing along
