Traditional / public domain

Listen to the mocking bird

A working songbook entry preserved from repertoire, set-list, or reference evidence.

Status
audio/reference
Writer / source
Melody by Richard Milburn; words/arrangement by Septimus Winner as Alice Hawthorne
Rights
Public domain in the United States. Traditional arrangement by The Scrips.
Related Scrips recording
No Scrips recording linked yet.

Source research

Documented lineage

Earliest evidence
1855 sheet music
Aliases / index
Listen to the Mockingbird
Working arrangement
Arrangement details not yet documented.

Lyrics + source text

Working song sheet

Listen to the Mocking Bird
Melody by Richard Milburn; words/arrangement by Septimus Winner as Alice Hawthorne
Rights: public-domain-us; no Scrips working lyric text located yet.

Archive note

reference audio file present

Chords

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