Name The Song The Line Is From Part III

Time for more lyrics from this Canadian singer-songwriter:

When the curtain closes and the rainbow runs away
I will bring you incense owls by night
By candlelight
By jewel-light
If only you will stay

From the lyrics, it sounds like it must be a good one, slowpoke. So far, I'm sorry to say, I don't recognize it.

Time to give it up: It's Joni Mitchell's Chelsea Morning. Fisrt recorded by Judy Collins in 1968. Then by Joni on her second album. Since then, covered by many including Neil Diamond.

Some trivia: Bill and Hillary's daughter, Chelsea, was named after this song.

I don't have another so I'll leave it open.

OK, here's one:


What he wants he can get now

I've been away from the computer for a while. I assume this one has probably been seen but obviously not yet guessed, so I'm adding a few more lines of lyrics, and a few hints:


Well, he's the teacher's pet now
What he wants he can get now
He even made the teacher let him sit next to my baby


The song is from 1958. It was sung by a well known American brother duo, and charted very highly in both the US and UK.

Gotta be early Everly Bros

You're on the right track, Phil. I might as well add a few more lines and make a full verse:


Johnny kissed the teacher
He tiptoed up to reach her
Well, he's the teacher's pet now
What he wants he can get now
He even made the teacher let him sit next to my baby


I dunno, maybe this one wasn't as obvious to everyone as I thought it would be because I chose not to include the "side" vocal contributions of one of the singers -- you know, the stuff that's normally shown in parentheses if it's shown at all.

In this case, I couldn't include it because it would have given away the whole song, and I thought sure I recalled previous posts, both by me and others, where stuff like that was intentionally left out.

Anyway, I might as well go ahead and show it, because it looks like this one isn't going to work otherwise:


Johnny kissed the teacher (he's a bird)
He tiptoed up to reach her (he's a bird)
Well, he's the teacher's pet now (he's a dog)
What he wants he can get now (what a dog)
He even made the teacher let him sit next to my baby (he's a bird dog)


Does THAT help??

If so, would someone else please just go ahead and post something new? I'm too embarrassed right now.

Jim, if I had been online, I would have gotten it from your first line -- "He's a Bird Dog," by the Everly's.

New lyrics --

"It's time for jumping down from the shelf"

Thanks, Sue.

Everyone, I want to clarify my last post. I was trying to say that I was the one who messed up, not those who were trying to guess the song.

I realized too late that "side" lyrics cannot be left out if they're an integral part of the song's storyline, as they clearly are in Bird Dog. Expecting someone to identify the song without the benefit of the critical side lyrics is like asking someone to understand the Gettysburg address after having read only the first half of every sentence.

Phil's innocent comment ("Gotta be early Everly Bros."), which he made after I thought I had already posted sufficient lyrics, brought that point home to me. And, if including the side lyrics would have given the song away, I should have picked a different song, or different lyrics from the same song.

Anyway, if there was a problem, it was not with any of you. It was with me, and I know it. That's the reason I said I was too embarrassed to post another song.

Now, back to Sue's lyrics:

"It's time for jumping down from the shelf"

At last ! Something I am innocent of or for...I have to show my wife !