Tennessee Bird Walk

"Tennessee Bird Walk"
Single by Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan
from the album Birds of a Feather
B-side	"The Clock of St. James"
Released	early 1970
Format	7" single
Genre	Country
Length	2:52
Label	Wayside 010
Writer(s)	Jack Blanchard
Producer(s)	Little Richie Johnson
Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan singles chronology
"Big Black Bird (Spirit of Our Love)" (1969) "Tennessee Bird Walk" (1970) "Humphrey the Camel" (1970)

"Tennessee Bird Walk" is a 1970 novelty single by the country music husband-and-wife duo Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan. The single was the duo's second release on the country charts and became their most successful single. "Tennessee Bird Walk" went to number one on the country charts for two weeks and spent a total of sixteen weeks on the chart.^[1] The single also crossed over to the Top 40 peaking at number twenty-three.^[2]

It is a novelty song theorizing on the effects of removing the wings, feathers, singing ability, and common sense from birds, along with birdbaths and the trees in which the birds reside. According to the first verse, these removals will result in "bald headed birds[…]walking southward in their dirty underwear".

Chart performance

Chart (1970)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	23
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1
Canadian RPM Top Singles	12

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 48.
2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 66.