title: A Bird In A Gilded Cage
songwriter: Harry Von Tilzer
key: General
harp type: Chromatic
genre: C
skill: Any
released: 1899

A BIRD IN A GILDED CAGE
By: Arthur Lamb & Harry von Tilzer
Shirley Temple
Key: C
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The ball-room was filled
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with fash-ion’s throng,
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It shone with a thous-and lights;
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And there was a wom-an who passed a-long,
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The fair-est of all the sights.
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A girl to her lov-er then soft-ly sighed,
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“There’s rich-es at her com-mand.”
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“But she mar-ried for wealth,
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not for love,” he cried!
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“Though she lives in a man-sion grand.”
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“She’s on-ly a bird in a gild-ed cage,
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A beau-ti-ful sight to see.
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You may think she’s hap-py and free from care,
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She’s not, though she seems to be.
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‘Tis sad when you think of her wast-ed life
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For youth can-not mate with age;
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And her beau-ty was sold
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for an old man’s gold,
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She’s a bird in a gild-ed cage.”
I stood in a churchyard just at eve,
When sunset adorned the west;
And looked at the people
who’d come to grieve
For loved ones now laid at rest.
A tall marble monument marked the grave
Of one who’d been fashion’s queen;
And I thought, “She is happier here at rest,
Than to have people say when seen: “