# Listen to the Mocking Bird

## Classification

- Queue shelf: light
- Current website category: archive
- Research category: public-domain
- Rights status: public-domain-us
- Confidence: confirmed

## Writer / Source

Melody by Richard Milburn; words/arrangement by Septimus Winner as Alice Hawthorne

## Earliest Located Evidence

1855 sheet music

## Context

No Scrips source text yet; nineteenth-century sheet music is public domain.

## Rights Assessment

The package uses the current U.S. public-domain rule of thumb that U.S. works published before 1931 are public domain in 2026, while modern works and later arrangements need separate clearance. For traditional material, the underlying tune/text may be public domain while The Scrips arrangement and any modern variant source remain separate rights questions.

## Source Links

- https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/listen-to-the-mockingbird/
- https://www.themorgan.org/music-manuscripts-and-printed-music/137786
- https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html

## Local Scrips Evidence

- Current source text: No text source yet
- Existing site status: audio/reference
- Existing site notes: reference audio file present
- Audio/reference file noted by site metadata: Music-Reference/Fiddle-Tune-Audio/Fiddle Tunes/Listen to the mocking bird.mp3

## Scrips Arrangement Notes

The text/chords supplied here follow the Scrips working source where available. Differences from older printed or collected versions should be treated as arrangement choices unless separately documented.

## Chords / Key / Tuning

- Key: not documented
- Capo: not documented
- Tuning/comment: not documented

## Alternate Titles / Indexes

- Alternate titles: Listen to the Mockingbird
- Roud number: none located / not applicable

## Open Questions

- No current website source text was supplied in the queue.
- No cleaned Scrips ChordPro file found; chords need confirmation.