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  • Great Speckled Bird
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  • American Christian hymns
  • Johnny Cash songs
  • Jerry Lee Lewis songs
  • 1936 songs
  • Roy Acuff songs
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  • %22The Great Speckled Bird%22 is a hymn from the Southern United States whose lyrics were written by the Reverend Guy Smith. It is an allegory referencing Fundamentalist self-perception during the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy. The song is in the form of AABA and has a 12 bar count. It is based on Jeremiah 12:9, %22Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.%22 It was recorded in 1936 by Roy Acuff. It was also later recorded by Johnny Cash and Kitty Wells (both in 1959), Pearly Brown (1961), Hank Locklin (1962), Marty Robbins (1966), Lucinda Williams (1978), Bert Southwood (1990), Marion Williams, and Jerry Lee Lewis.The tune is the same apparently traditional melody used in the song %22Thrills That I Can't Forget,%22 recorded by Welby Toomey and Edgar Boaz for Gennett in 1925, and the song %22I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes,%22 originally recorded by the Carter family for Victor in 1929. The same melody was later used in the 1952 country hit %22The Wild Side of Life,%22 sung by Hank Thompson, and the even more successful %22answer song%22 performed by Kitty Wells called %22It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels%22 in the same year. A notable instrumental version is found on the Grammy Award-Nominated album 20th Century Gospel by Nokie Edwards and The Light Crust Doughboys on Greenhaw Records.The connection between these songs is noted in the David Allan Coe song %22If That Ain't Country%22 that ends with the lyrics %22I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes/ And finding the great speckled bird/ I didn't know God made honky-tonk angels/ and went back to the wild side of life.%22Both the song %22The Great Speckled Bird%22 and the passage from Jeremiah may be a poetic description of mobbing behavior.
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