[00:32.94]A poor orphan girl named Maria[00:33.60]was walking the market one day[01:03.21]she stopped for to rest by the road side[01:03.99]where a bird with a broken wing laid[01:04.71]a few moments passed till she saw it[01:05.43]for it\'s feathers were covered with sand[01:13.26]and soon clean and rapped it was traveling[01:14.16]in the warmth of Maria\'s small hand[01:33.84]she happily gave her last paso[01:34.50]of a cage made of freshes and twine[01:38.76]she fed it loose corn from the market[01:39.54]watched it grow stronger with time[01:52.98]now the gift giving service was coming[01:53.79]and the chruch arm with tinsel and light[01:55.26]an\' all of the town folk brought presents[01:56.07]to lay by the manger that night[02:31.56]there were diamonds, incents and perfumes[02:36.06]and packages fit for a king[03:05.82]but for one raged bird in his small cage[03:13.47]Maria had nothing to bring[03:14.04]she waited till just before midnight[03:15.06]so no one would see her go in[03:15.63]and crying she knelt be the manger[03:26.25]for her gift was unworthy of him[03:27.06]then a voice spoke to her through the darkness[03:27.90]Maria what brings you to me[03:30.03]if the bird in the cage is your offering[03:30.78]open the door let me see[03:31.35]so she trembled she did as he asked her[03:32.16]an\' out of the cage the bird flew[03:32.79]soaring up into the rafters[03:33.39]on a wing that would feel good just new[03:34.14]an\' just as the midnight bells rang out[03:34.92]and the little bird started to sing[03:35.70]a song that no words could recapture[03:36.45]for its beauty was fit for a king[04:02.34]now Maria felt blessed just to listen[04:03.15]to the cascade a note sweet and long[04:38.37]as her offering was lifted to heaven[04:39.15]by the very first night in Gales song[04:47.97]-End-