It took me a couple minutes before I thought to ask why it was a bird doing the talking...
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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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This has gone totally over my head I have no idea why it's a bird
Lyrics courtesy of this site
Gonna pack up all my care and woe,
Here I go swingin' low,
Bye bye blackbird.
Where somebody waits for me,
Sugar's sweet, so is she,
Bye bye blackbird.
No one here can love or understand me,
Oh what hard luck stories, they all hand me.
make my bed and light the light,
I’ll be home late tonight,
Blackbird, bye bye.
I’m gonna pack up all my cares and woe,
Here I go singin' low,
Bye bye blackbird.
Where somebody waits for me,
Sugar is sweet, so is he,
Bye bye blackbird.
No one here can love or understand me,
Oh what hard luck stories, they all hand me.
Make my bed and light the light,
I’ll be home late tonight
Blackbird, bye bye.
To be fair, the singer never talks about taking their "care and woe" with them.
WHAAA--
Thanks, though I think I liked it better when I thought it was just surreal.
It's the very first line you shared.
It is a joke on the lyrics of a Dean Martin Song: Bye Bye Blackbird.
Even though I know
I suppose I'll throw
All my cares and woes
OUT THE DOOOOOOOR!
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE I AM STILL JUST A RAT IN A CAGE
There are few things more satisfying than seeing something on the internet that I'm too young to understand.
Peak Far Side
Would have never known it had anything to do with a song, I just thought it was a mockingbird