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During the summer of 2001 I was with some students on a mission trip. We went out to the Pine Ridge reservation for a week and then headed to Rocky Mountain National Park for a couple of days.

On the way west across South Dakota a bird flew into the windshield of the 15 passenger van I was driving. During the five days that we were on the reservation, another bird flew into the windshield of the same van, again with me behind the wheel. Both of these birds hit us when we were traveling at about 70 miles/hour on the interstate. They neatly bounced off leaving barely a mark.

After we left South Dakota and had made our way down to Colorado, we were driving on a side street in a residential area when a third bird flew into the windshield of the van I was driving. This time we were only going about 35 and there was much spattering and splattering and the bird didn't quite die on impact.

One night in Rocky Mountain National Park, Sam and I composed a little tune to memorialize the dead birds. It was called Bird on a

Windshield.

Later the next summer as I was getting ready to move away and Sam and I were recording our songs, we sat down in the control room with a single microphone and two guitars. We added it to our CD without telling anyone we had done it and gave copies to our fellow mission team members. Some of them noticed the extra track and told others.

Now you can hear the secret track too by pressing the play button above.

Bird on a Windshield

I'm just a bird on a windshield

I'm just a bird on a windshield

Feathers on the wiper

Blood on the glass

Stupid drivers never signal when they pass

I'm just a bird on a windshield

I'm just two birds on the windshield

I'm just three birds on the windshield

music and lyrics copyright 2001 by Sam Getz and Jim Jannotti.

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