“The Birds Were Singing of You” is a Carter Family original, credited to A.P. Carter. The Carter Family recorded it in the early 1930s, with A.P. and Sara Carter singing it as a tender duet.
It is a love song of absence. Apart from the one he loves, the singer finds that the whole of the natural world — the birds, the flowers, the stars, the moon — seems to speak of her, turning every sight and sound into a reminder.
The song passed from the Carter Family into the old-time and bluegrass repertoire.
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