The Jaybird

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The Jaybird he's my _favorite_
  Of all the birds they is!
  I think he's quite a stylish sight
  In that blue suit of his:
  An' when he' lights an' shuts his wings,
  His coat's a "cutaway"--
  I guess it's only when he sings
  You'd know he wuz a jay.

  I like to watch him when he's lit
  In top of any tree,
  'Cause all birds git wite out of it
  When _he_ 'lights, an' they see
  How proud he act', an' swell an' spread
  His chest out more an' more,
  An' raise the feathers on his head
  Like it's cut pompadore!

© James Whitcomb Riley