Mariah covered this classic jazz song during her 2014 tour, The Elusive Chanteuse Show. One of the performances of the song was included on the compilation The Rarities, released in 2020. “‘Lullaby Of Birdland’ is a song I used to sing as a child,” Mariah told Angie Martinez in 2020. “I learned how to improvise and work with musicians as a child and this is one of the songs I learned, which is a very difficult song to learn because of the fact that musically it's not easy, there's a lot of modulations and different places where the music goes.”
Lullaby of birdland, that's what I
Always hear when you sigh
Never in my wordland
Could there by words to reveal
In a phrase how I feel
Have you ever heard two turtle doves
Bill and coo when they love?
That's the kind of magic
Music we make with our lips when we kiss
And there's a weepy old willow
He really knows how to cry
That's how I'd cry on my pillow
If you should say farewell and goodbye
Lullaby of birdland whisper low
Kiss me sweet then we'll go
Flyin' high in birdland
High in the sky up above
All because we're in love
And there's a weepy old willow
He really knows how to cry
That's how I'd cry on my pillow
If you should say farewell and goodbye
Lullaby of birdland whisper low
Kiss me sweet then we'll go
Flyin' high in birdland
High in the sky up above
All because we're in love
Repeat
Written by George Shearing, George David Weiss.
Produced by Mariah Carey.
