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May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose (WORD)
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Oh yeah - told you I'd be posting this one!
"May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" was Dickens' most successful single on the U.S. country music chart. It spent two weeks at No. 1 that November, and stayed on the chart for a total of 18 weeks. On the overall Billboard Hot 100 the song peaked at No. 15.
The song, written by Neal Merritt, was inspired by one of the many comic putdowns uttered by host Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show.