"Jenny Wren" is a song from Paul McCartney's 2005 album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. It was released 21 November 2005 as the second single from the album in the United Kingdom (see 2005 in British music). It was written in Los Angeles, and is about a character of the same name from Charles Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend. It also refers to an English bird called wren, which is reported to be McCartney's favourite. Paul McCartney wrote the tune in the same sort of "fingerpicking" style found in "Blackbird", "Mother Nature's Son" (The Beatles "White Album") and "Calico Skies" (Flaming Pie). The song earned a nomination for the 2007 Grammy Awards, in the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance category.
The solo is played on an Armenian woodwind instrument, called duduk.
