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The Song Challenge:   Polly Want a Divorce?  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese housewife is seeking divorce claiming the family's talking bird dropped clues on her husband's illicit affair, state media said on Tuesday.  The woman from southwestern Chongqing city said she uncovered the affair when their mynah began saying things like "Divorce," "I love you" and "Be patient" after it overheard the husband's telephone calls with his mistress, the Xinmin Evening News said.  The woman said she noticed the feathered tattle-tale's strange new vocabulary after she returned from a month-long visit with her parents that started in May.  Already suspecting her husband was having an affair, she observed that the bird became particularly talkative whenever the telephone rang, confirming her suspicions, the report said.  Last week she brought the bird to a law office for consultation, hoping it could testify in court.  "Can my mynah be used as witness?" the newspaper quoted her as asking.   Lawyers were not optimistic.  "The judges are unlikely to rule against your husband based only on the mynah's words," attorney Wu Di was quoted as telling her.


Ol' Mynah's Daughter by SharonA
(Tune: Coal Miner's Daughter)

Well, I was born an ol' mynah's daughter
In a pet store next to "Ever'thing's a Dollar"
Under Mommie's wing at night
She'd teach this lesson by the pale streetlight:
"Whatever someone whispers, you should holler."

One day, a lady took me to Chongqing city
To a gilded cage where I was sittin' pretty
Eatin' crackers by the score
I would holler anytime I wanted more
By repeatin' things she thought were awful witty.

In the spring, she packed her bags and she went away
And told her husband he should talk to me ever' day
Till the time that she returned
But her tender love he spurned.
For cheatin' on his wife, I'd make him pay.

By the summertime I'd learned his vocabulary
With his mistress on the phone; he wasn't wary
Of the things that I might say
When his wife would come back this way.
When I tattled on him, things got pretty hairy.

Yeah! I'm proud to be an ol' mynah's daughter!
I remember well that threats were made to slaughter
This bird who worked so hard
When that bad man let down his guard,
'Cause I memorized his whispers that I would holler.

Well, the tune he sang has changed since way back then
And it's so good that his wife's back again
'Cause her husband's out the door;
She don't hear him anymore
Except the mimics by an ol' mynah's daughter.

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