Abstinence makes the booby's feet grow bluer and its heart fonder
Times Online - Hannah Devlin - In a study of the blue-footed booby, which is native to the Galápagos Islands and Ecuador, they found that when birds had a year off from reproducing their feet got an even bluer sky-blue.
Writer(s): Mercer/Arlen/Cyril
My mama done tol' me, when I was in knee-pants
My mama done tol' me, "Son, a woman'll sweet talk"
And give ya the big eye, but when the sweet talkin's done
A woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blue-footed booby blues in the night.
Now the rain's a-fallin', hear the train a-callin, "Whooee!"
(My mama done tol' me) Hear that lonesome whistle blowin' 'cross the trestle, "Whooee!"
(My mama done tol' me) A-whooee-dah-whooee o' clickety-clack's a-echoin' back the blue-footed booby blues in the night.
The evenin' breeze will start the trees to cryin' and the moon will hide its light when you get the blue-footed booby blues in the night.
And take my word, that mockingbird’ll sing the saddest kind of song, he knows things are wrong, and he's so right.
From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow
I’ve been in some big towns and I heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I know
A woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blue-footed booby blues in the night.
My mama was right, there's blue-footed booby blues in the night.
