I Heard The Bluebirds Sing - Hugh P & Maria

      This song was written by good old cowboy named Hod Pharis from Southern Alberta, Canada. He wrote it for a girl he had met in Coleman or Blairmore in the Crowsnest Pass of the beautiful Rocky Mountains. They would likely have had to wait until the spring came because for most of the winter in those days, the roads would not have been easy to negotiate through the mountains.

I met a girl down in the hills

That gave my lonely heart a thrill

Her beauty seemed just like a breath of spring

And when I looked into her eyes

I thought it blue as a summer skies

And when I held her hand in mine I heard the bluebirds sing.

They sang of wondering

Wondering if you'll love her

Will she marry, marry if you'll ask her?

Will her heart be heart be true

For him for then and evermore?

And when she's lonely, lonely is he near her

When there's sadness

Sadness will her cheer her

Will they always

Always be together until the day they part?

I courted her for months on end

Until she promised we would wed

We planned on being married in the spring

All through the long cold winter months

It seemed that spring would never come

And every gloomy winter day I heard the bluebirds sing

They sang of waiting, waiting for the flowers

And of counting, counting every hour

Till the bluebirds, till the bluebirds

Chirps his welcome and tips the world each morn

And though we've waiting for the sunshine

We keep hating, hating every storm cloud

That has gathered, gathered over the mountains

To keep us for apart.

And when at last spring touched the earth

We were married in the village church

Our wedding seems just like a dream come true

So many years have come and gone

Our love is still as true and strong

As when I found longer ago, till the bluebirds sing

They sang of loving, loving every hour

That I'm married married to my flower

We'll be happy, happy ever after

As since the day we've met

And though we've older, older the love is sweeter

We grow fonder, fonder to each other

We'll be sweethearts, sweethearts

Close together until the day of time.