Black-capped chickadee, come sing your song for me.
Now you sit in solitude, although you once flew free.
Now mute, you nought but mutter, although once in majesty
Black-capped chickadee, you sang your song for me.
Black-capped chickadee, now sitting in a cage.
Your body weak and weary, though in your mind a sage.
Your youthful years behind you, now alone you wait for age
Black-capped chickadee, you know I share your cage.
Black-capped chickadee, the two of us are one.
Only for a moment did we saunter in the sun.
Only for a mere blink in time, for then our race was run
Black-capped chickadee, now you and I are one.
Black-capped chickadee, today you flew away.
Though I hoped to hold you here, the present cannot stay.
Though now I see you sing your song, the song of this great day
Black-capped chickadee, today I fly away.