This tear-jerker made people cry in its day, 1900. words by Arthur J. Lamb music by Harry Von Tilzer
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She’s only a bird in a gilded cage
A beautiful sight to see
You may think she’s happy and free from care
She’s not, though she seems to be
‘Tis sad when you think of her wasted life
For youth cannot mate with age
And her beauty was sold, for an old man’s gold
She’s a bird in a gilded cage
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