Tennessee Bird Walk

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"Tennessee Bird Walk"
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Single by Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan
from the album Birds of a Feather [1]
B-side "The Clock of St. James"
Releasedearly 1970
Genre Country
Length2:52
Label Wayside 010
Songwriter(s) Jack Blanchard
Producer(s) Little Richie Johnson
Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan singles chronology
"Big Black Bird (Spirit of Our Love)"
(1969)
"Tennessee Bird Walk"
(1970)
"Humphrey the Camel"
(1970)

"Tennessee Bird Walk" is a 1970 novelty single by the country music husband-and-wife duo Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan. The single was the duo's second release on the country charts and became their most successful single. "Tennessee Bird Walk" went to number one on the country charts for two weeks and spent a total of sixteen weeks on the chart. [2] The single also crossed over to the Top 40 peaking at number twenty-three. [3]

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It is a novelty song theorizing on the effects of removing the wings, feathers, singing ability, and common sense from birds, along with birdbaths and the trees in which the birds reside. According to the first verse, these removals will result in "bald headed birds[…]walking southward in their dirty underwear".

Chart performance

Chart (1970)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles1
U.S. Billboard Hot 10023
Australian (Kent Music Report) [4] 3
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1
Canadian RPM Top Singles12

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