May the Bird of Paradise Fly up Your Nose - Wikipedia May the Bird of Paradise Fly up Your Nose `` May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose '' Single by Little Jimmy Dickens from the album May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose B - side `` My Eyes Are Jealous '' Released September 7, 1965 Format 7 '' single Genre Country Length 2 : 28 Label Columbia Songwriter ( s ) Neal Merritt Producer ( s ) Don Law Frank Jones Little Jimmy Dickens singles chronology `` He Stands Real Tall '' ( 1965 ) `` May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose '' ( 1965 ) `` When the Ship Hit the Sand '' ( 1966 ) `` He Stands Real Tall '' ( 1965 ) `` May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose '' ( 1965 ) `` When the Ship Hit the Sand '' ( 1966 ) `` May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose '' is a 1965 novelty song performed by Little Jimmy Dickens. It was Dickens ' most successful single on the U.S. country music chart. It spent two weeks at No. 1 that November, and stayed on the chart for a total of 18 weeks. On the overall Billboard Hot 100 the song peaked at No. 15. The song, written by Neal Merritt, was inspired by one of the many comic putdowns uttered by host Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. Content The song features three verses, each of which mentions an incident where Dickens ( the narrator ) acts in a cheap and / or rude manner that insults the other person : In the first verse, Dickens sees a beggar and proceeds to give him only a penny. In the second verse, Dickens gets a call from his laundryman, who returns $100 that Dickens left in his clothes. Dickens gives him 10 cents, to compensate him for the phone call. In the final verse, Dickens asks a cabdriver to rush so he can catch a train ; the driver is ticketed for speeding, while Dickens stands by, waiting for the change from his fare. The chorus is an insult, said back to Dickens, for his cheapness. The distinctive guitar work was done by Grady Martin, using the brand new Echoplex unit which had just been released. Chart performance Chart ( 1965 ) Peak position U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles U.S. Billboard Hot 100 15 U.S. Billboard Easy Listening 8 Canadian RPM Top Singles References Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits : 1944 - 2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 106. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits : Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 178. Jump up ^ `` Dickens ' Single Is Raising Dickens ''. Billboard. 23 October 1965. p. 12. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 1993 ). Top Adult Contemporary : 1961 -- 1993. Record Research. p. 73. Preceded by `` Behind the Tear '' by Sonny James Billboard Hot Country Singles number - one single November 20 -- November 27, 1965 Succeeded by `` Make the World Go Away '' by Eddy Arnold This 1960s country song - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=May_the_Bird_of_Paradise_Fly_Up_Your_Nose&oldid=843324150 '' Categories : 1965 singles Billboard Hot Country Songs number - one singles Little Jimmy Dickens songs Novelty songs 1965 songs Columbia Records singles 1960s country song stubs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 28 May 2018, at 11 : 26. About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote may the bird of paradise fly up your nose
Answer: Neal Merritt