Birds in the Tree
Author: Glenna Tate Holbrook
Composer: Marjorie Castleton Kjar
Languages (15)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Chinese (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Danish: Fuglen i træet
- Dutch: Een nestje
- English: Birds in the Tree
- Finnish: Linnunpesä
- French: Les oiseaux dans les arbs
- German: Vögel im Baum
- Japanese: [Unknown title]
- Korean: [Unknown title]
- Norwegian: Fugler i treet
- Portuguese: Encontrei Um Belo Ninho
- Samoan: O Manulele i le Laau
- Spanish: Los pajaritos
- Swedish: Fåglar i ett träd
- Tongan: Foʻi Manupuna he Fuʻu ʻAkau
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Most common tunes for “Birds in the Tree”
This chart shows the tunes that are paired with this text most frequently, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If the text appears with the same tune in multiple editions or translations of the same hymnbook, it is only counted once.
Appearances of “Birds in the Tree” over time
This timeline shows which tunes have been used with this text over time, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1954 or earlier.
In copyright (IRI)
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Beginnings of Religious Praise (1954), p. 321.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. We will find a little nest In the branches of a tree. Let us count the eggs inside; There are one, two, three.
2. Mother bird sits on the nest To hatch the eggs, all three. Father bird flies round and round To guard his family.
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