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[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

It took me a couple minutes before I thought to ask why it was a bird doing the talking...

[-] BluesF@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

This has gone totally over my head I have no idea why it's a bird

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works

Lyrics courtesy of this site

Gonna pack up all my care and woe,

Here I go swingin' low,

Bye bye blackbird.

Where somebody waits for me,

Sugar's sweet, so is she,

Bye bye blackbird.

No one here can love or understand me,

Oh what hard luck stories, they all hand me.

make my bed and light the light,

I’ll be home late tonight,

Blackbird, bye bye.

I’m gonna pack up all my cares and woe,

Here I go singin' low,

Bye bye blackbird.

Where somebody waits for me,

Sugar is sweet, so is he,

Bye bye blackbird.

No one here can love or understand me,

Oh what hard luck stories, they all hand me.

Make my bed and light the light,

I’ll be home late tonight

Blackbird, bye bye.

To be fair, the singer never talks about taking their "care and woe" with them.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

WHAAA--

Thanks, though I think I liked it better when I thought it was just surreal.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

It's the very first line you shared.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

It is a joke on the lyrics of a Dean Martin Song: Bye Bye Blackbird.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 7 months ago

Even though I know

I suppose I'll throw

All my cares and woes

OUT THE DOOOOOOOR!

DESPITE ALL MY RAGE I AM STILL JUST A RAT IN A CAGE

[-] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Peak Far Side

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

There are few things more satisfying than seeing something on the internet that I'm too young to understand.

[-] speederpotpie@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Would have never known it had anything to do with a song, I just thought it was a mockingbird

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About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

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