You have to be pulling my leg.
...it's 4 colly birds... not 4 calling birds...
opelmanta1900 wrote:
Omg....you're friggen right! I always thought it was "calling birds" too. Looks like we're both "today" years old when we learned that!
If they were at your pad, they'd be 4 coughing birds.
bgz wrote:
Nah man... 3 little birds... by my door step...
"Colly bird?”
It’s essentially a black bird.
Although both “calling” and “colly” have appeared in versions of the song, “colly,” which is derived from the Old English word for coal, predates “calling” by more than a century.
Thanks, Opie.
Great... learned something new that is completely useless to me... and it prolly pushed out something important.
MACS wrote:
But now, if you're ever on Jeopardy, you'll know the answer to Final Jeopardy!
My mind is filled with absolutely useless information, which sucks because I could really use that headspace for math...
Also WTF is a colly bird???
Notthe1 wrote:
Linguistically speaking it likely derived from the term 'coaly' or to appear covered in coal...
Sounds more like rats.
