Question: "Blue Tail Fly" and "Flight of the Bumblebee" are both songs with some sort of emphasis on what sort of living thing?

Context articles: The Wayfaring Stranger (album)
Gnathophyllum americanum
Insects in music
Bestiary
Arabhar
Blue-tailed skink
Clare de Kitchen
Living Thing
Jimmy Crack Corn
Rod MacDonald

The Wayfaring Stranger (Asch 345) is an album consisting of three 10-inch, 78 rpm records by Burl Ives released on Asch in 1944.
 It should not be confused with Ives' 1944 album for Columbia Records (C-103) – also called "The Wayfaring Stranger" and itself a re-release of a 1941 album on Okeh Records – which contains different songs.
 The Asch album includes the first releases of two signature songs by Ives: "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "The Blue Tail Fly."
Gnathophyllum americanum, commonly known as the "striped bumblebee shrimp," is a species of shrimp that is common throughout tropical lagoons, bays, and reefs. Similar in coloration to a brightly coloured bumblebee, with blue highlights, the striped bumblebee shrimp can grow up to 1 in in length.
Insect names have appeared in music from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" to such popular songs as "Blue-tailed Fly".
 Insect groups mentioned include bees, ants, flies and the various singing insects such as cicadas, crickets, and beetles.
A bestiary, or bestiarum vocabulum, is a compendium of beasts.
 Originating in the Ancient world, bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals and even rocks.
 The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson.
 This reflected the belief that the world itself was the Word of God, and that every living thing had its own special meaning.
 For example, the pelican, which was believed to tear open its breast to bring its young to life with its own blood, was a living representation of Jesus.
 The bestiary, then, is also a reference to the symbolic language of animals in Western Christian art and literature.
Arabhar, literally "arab snake" is a type of snake thought to live near the Arabian Sea.
 The thing that makes this creature special is its alleged ability to fly.
 There’s a lot of debate about how the Arabhar actually takes flight.
 Some reports say it flies using bat-like, leathery wings.
 Others think it may use some sort of flap or specialized spine that allows it to glide through the air.
 There are also known snakes belonging to the genus Chrysopelea that "fly" through the air by jumping from branch to branch, so it is possible this snake has adapted that ability as well.
 It is more likely that many reported sightings of Arabhar are simply these flying snakes.
The blue-tailed skink ("Cryptoblepharus egeriae") is a species of skink, a lizard native to Australia's Christmas Island, and is not closely related to the "Plestiodon" skinks of North America, whose juveniles are known for their blue tails.
 It is relatively small with a black body with yellow stripes going to a bright blue tail.
"Clare de Kitchen" is an American song from the blackface minstrel tradition.
 It dates to 1832, when blackface performers such as George Nichols, Thomas D. Rice, and George Washington Dixon began to sing it.
 These performers and American writers such as T. Allston Brown traced the song's origins to black riverboatsmen.
 "Clare de Kitchen" became very popular, and performers sometimes sang the lyrics of "Blue Tail Fly" to its tune.
Living Thing is the fifth album by Peter Bjorn and John (not including their instrumental Seaside Rock project), released on 30 March 2009 in the UK and 31 March in the US.
 Much darker and more experimental than their previous album "Writer's Block", "Living Thing "expands the sound of the group by taking more cues from hip-hop and electronic music, in particular the work of African electronic funk musician William Onyeabor.
 Three singles were eventually released from the album: "Nothing To Worry About," 'It Don't Move Me," and "Lay It Down."
"Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Blue Tail Fly" is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels.
 It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular children's song.
 Over the years, several variants have appeared.
Rod MacDonald (born August 17, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, novelist, and educator.
 He was a "big part of the 1980s folk revival in Greenwich Village clubs", performing at the Speakeasy, The Bottom Line, Folk City, and the Songwriter's Exchange at the Cornelia Street Cafe for many years.
 He co-founded the Greenwich Village Folk Festival.
 He is perhaps best known for his songs "American Jerusalem", about the "contrast between the rich and the poor in Manhattan" ("Sing Out!
"), "A Sailor's Prayer", "Coming of the Snow", "Every Living Thing", and "My Neighbors in Delray", a description of the September 11 hijackers' last days in Delray Beach, Florida, where MacDonald has lived since 1995.
 His songs have been covered by Dave Van Ronk, Shawn Colvin, Four Bitchin' Babes, Jonathan Edwards, Garnet Rogers, Joe Jencks, and others.
 His 1985 recording "White Buffalo" is dedicated to Lakota Sioux ceremonial chief and healer Frank Fools Crow, whom he visited in 1981 and 1985, and who appears with MacDonald in the cover photograph.
 Since 1995 MacDonald has lived in south Florida, where his cd, "Later that Night" was named "Best Local Cd of 2014" by "The Palm Beach Post" and reached the top ten in national folk music charts.
 His first novel, The Open Mike, about a young man in the open mike scene of Greenwich Village, was published on December 5, 2014, by Archway Publishing.