Birds are flyin' south for winter. Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north, Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin', Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth. He says, "It's not that I like ice Or freezin' winds and snowy ground. It's just sometimes it's kind of nice To be the only bird in town.

Shel Silverstein
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This is a popular nursery rhyme from the early 1900s. It has been used in television commercials, on greeting cards and on best-selling children’s books. The oldest version of the rhyme was made up by a man named Edward Lear who wrote a book called "The Owl and the Pussycat." He based it on a poem written by a woman named Christina Rossetti.

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