I want to tell in deepest grief The saddest thing I ever heard I wasn't able to believe The demise of my lovely bird My sweetest dear, this little clown He cannot fly, he cannot sing My bird is daily falling down And suffers from a broken wing His last winter ended in green Till summer he wanted to stay No flowers had his small eyes seen As spring covered him with clay And one day when he falls again He'll remain lying on the ground Nobody cares, believe me, when He says goodbye without a sound