It's Tough to Be a Bird (song)

It's Tough to Be a Bird is a song from the 1969 titular Disney short of the same name. The song's lyrics deal about how birds face natural threats and challenges in the real world with human activities and is first sung at the beginning of the short. It is performed again where the M.C. Bird rides on an airplane in the sky, fearing about how humans are never aware that certain species of birds are having their populations declining just before the scene loops into a sequence where he tells the audience about how some species of birds that are already extinct and some species being listed as endangered species.
==Lyrics==
<tabber>
First=
When we go splittin' out across the sky
Somehow, we seem to make the buckshot fly
Folks keep objecting to our passing-by
Man, it is tough to be a bird
When we are in a tree and singing loud
'Cause we are happy and we look so proud
We take a beating from the slingshot crowd
Man, it is tough to be a bird
With BB's they bang us, they even boomerang us
From eagles to sparrows, they shaft us with the arrows,
They snare us, they trap us, and in a cage they clamp us 
And what they think we need
Is last week's paper to read 
They chase us off the statues we like best
They take our eggs and sometimes "eat" our nests
They pull our feathers out and call us "dressed"
Man, it is tough...
(bang)
...to be...
(bang)
...a...
(bang)
...bird!
|-|Reprise=
You saw the stuff to which our names are linked
I bet you never even smiled or blinked
Guess you desire we should be extinct
Man, it is tough to be a bird
Although we want to live a life serene
And keep our feathers and our noses clean
With human population on the scene
Man...
(bang)
...it is so tough...
(bang)
...to be...
(bang)
...a...
(bang)
...bird!
</tabber>
Category:Opening songs
Category:Title songs
Category:Reprise