The American Eagle

Here's a beat I can't resist
So let's get up and dance the American Eagle
Two or three small eggs are laid in a nest which an eagle made

Eagle eggs in our American nation spend 35 days in incubation
The eagle parents take turnabout
Keep an egg's warm until the chicks hatch out

The kids are small for the first several weeks
And the parents pop food into their beaks
And if an eagle would make a wish for a treat to eat, it would want a fish

When a fish is caught, it's an eagle convention
The parents divide it, and the kids pay attention
But later on, when a fish is caught, the kids divide it up like they were taught

Sticks and branches are eagle toys
Holding on is taught, they're girls and boys

They pluck baby feathers as new ones show up
They keep on plucking as they grow up

Ma and Pa teach many things
Like jumping up and down and flapping their wings

Eagle kids flap and jump and cry, and after weeks of practice they're ready to fly

But if they won't fly out of that nest, Papa keeps their food until they pass
The test

At the age of one, the kids leave home to make their way in the world alone
And after a four or five year wait, they settle down with a lifetime mate
Together they sleep and hunt and eat, and fly as high as 10,000 feet

On a clear and cloudless summer day, they can spot a fish three miles away

When they build nests, they build heavy ones
Some as heavy as one or two tons

Let's hope the eagle is here to stay as the emblem of the U.S of A