Our theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is "These Songs are for the Birds." Some of these songs are literal in their avian imagery. Some are metaphorical.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| For the Birds Bruce Cockburn - Sunwheel Dance: Deluxe Edition - True North
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| Like a Little Bird (with Polly Harris) Mike Stevens - Breathe In the World Breathe Out Music - Stony Plain
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| Hey Little Bird Don Armstrong - Mother Don’t Give Up on Me Now - Ronstadt Record Co. |
| Little Birdie: A Reimagined Traditional Song Marc Nerenberg - Little Birdie: Birds, Beasts & Banjo Blues - Marc Nerenberg
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| Golden Bird Happy & Artie Traum - Happy and Artie Traum - Capitol |
| High Flying Bird Judy Henske - The Elektra Albums - Ace |
| All the Birds Lynn Miles - Black Flowers Vol. 4 - Lynn Miles
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| Swans Upon the Avon Michael 'Earnie' Taylor - Folk ‘n’ Western - Laughing Cactus Music
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| I Heard the Bluebird Sing Finest Kind - Lost in a Song - Fallen Angle
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| This Song is for the Birds Bill Staines - Third Time Around - Catfish |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| Settle In (Chatter of the Finches) Kim Wallach - Chatter of the Finches - Black Socks Press |
| I am a Skylark Vanessa Lively - Truth Is - Animada
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| Skylark Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik - Martha Sings & Robert Plays - Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik |
| Cucurrucucu Paloma Perla Batalla - Discoteca Batalla - Mechuda Music |
| Redwinged Blackbird Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer - Get Up and Do Right - Community Music
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| The Birds Ian Tamblyn - Voice in the Wilderness - North Track
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| The Heron Julie Felix - Rock Me Goddess - Remarkable |
| Bird of Paradise Sneezy Waters - A Letter Home - Sneezy Waters
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| To Be Done Brian QTN - OsculEARiosophy - Brian QTN
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| My Faithful Sparrow Anya Hinkle - Eden and Her Borderlands - Organic |
| We Become Birds Michael Smith - Love Letter on a Fish - Tales from the Tavern |
| Love Song to a Bird Diana Jones - Song to a Refugee - Goldmine |
| Wild Geese Tom Russell - Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia - True North
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| The Nightingale's Song Last Forever - No Place Like Home/Last Forever - 2nd Story Sound |
| The Golden Eagle Natalie MacMaster - Sketches - Linus
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4:19 PM, May 17th, 2022