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Billy Bragg, Wilco – Birds And Ships (feat. Natalie Merchant) (1998) | Track profile | Dork

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Billy Bragg, Wilco
Mermaid Avenue
Birds And Ships (feat. Natalie Merchant)

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Billy Bragg, Wilco

Birds And Ships (feat. Natalie Merchant)

Release date: 22nd June 1998

From Mermaid AvenueTrack 42:16

Alternative Folk Music Singer/Songwriter Rock

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"Birds And Ships (feat. Natalie Merchant)" is a track by Billy Bragg, Wilco, from the album Mermaid Avenue, released 22nd June 1998. The track is 2:16 long. It's filed under Alternative Folk. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Birds And Ships (feat. Natalie Merchant)

The birds are singing in your eyes today
Sweet flowers blossom in your smile
The wind and sun are in the words you say
"Where might your lonesome lover be?"

Birds may be singing in my eyes this day
Sweet flowers blossom when I smile
But my soul is stormy and my heart blows wild
My sweetheart rides a ship on the sea

Though my soul is stormy and my heart blows wild
Where might my lonesome lover be?

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Track details

From Mermaid Avenue

2:161998

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Album

Billy Bragg, Wilco

Track number

4

Release year

1998

1Walt Whitman's Niece
3:54
2California Stars
4:59
3Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
4:07
4Birds And Ships (feat. Natalie Merchant)
2:16

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Billy Bragg, Wilco — Bugeye Jim (from Mermaid Avenue Vol. III) [3:14]
Billy Bragg, Wilco — I'm Out to Get (from Mermaid Avenue Vol. III) [3:58]
Billy Bragg, Wilco — Go Down to the Water (from Mermaid Avenue Vol. III) [4:32]
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Billy Bragg, Wilco — Tea Bag Blues (from Mermaid Avenue Vol. III) [4:00]
Billy Bragg, Wilco — Gotta Work (from Mermaid Avenue Vol. III) [2:12]
Billy Bragg, Wilco — My Thirty Thousand (from Mermaid Avenue Vol. III) [2:37]
Billy Bragg, Wilco — Ought to Be Satisfied Now (from Mermaid Avenue Vol. III) [3:30]
Billy Bragg, Wilco — Listening to the Wind That Blows (from Mermaid Avenue Vol. III) [5:04]
Billy Bragg, Wilco — When the Roses Bloom Again (from Mermaid Avenue Vol. III) [4:08]
Billy Bragg, Wilco — Give Me a Nail (from Mermaid Avenue Vol. III) [1:38]
Billy Bragg, Wilco — Don't You Marry (from Mermaid Avenue Vol. III) [3:14]
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Billy Bragg, Wilco — Union Prayer (from Mermaid Avenue Vol. III) [4:09]
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6She Came Along To Me

7At My Window Sad And Lonely

8Ingrid Bergman

9Christ For President

10I Guess I Planted

12Eisler On The Go

13Hesitating Beauty

14Another Man's Done Gone

15The Unwelcome Guest