IRVING BERLIN lyrics - The Little Red Lacquer Cage

[Verse:]

Locked in a cage I'm sad as I can be

Singing my song all the day long

It seems I can hear the forest calling me

How I keep longing just to be free



[Refrain:]

I'd love to leave my little red lacquer cage

And fly away out there where I



Could sing my beautiful song

In the forest where I belong



The little birds that live in a tree

Would love to hear my sweet melody



I hate to sing the song that God gave to me

In a little red lacquer cage