Birds Of Harmony

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Marry Waterson

Maria Gilhooley (née Knight), who records under the name Marry Waterson, is a singer, songwriter and visual artist. A member of the Waterson-Knight-Carthy family musical dynasty, Waterson is described as having "thrived on communal music making while developing highly original and distinctly English performance styles of [her] own." more »

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Oh says the cuckoo, loud and stout 

I fly the country round about 

While other birds my young ones feed 

And I must stay to stand in need 

 

Then says the sparrow on her nest 

I loved a lass but it was in jest 

And ever since that self same thing 

I made a vow I ne’er would sing 

 

And next there spoke the little brown thrush 

He was sitting in yon holly bush 

The way to court I’ve heard them say 

Is to court all night and sleep the next day 

With me aye de aye de aye diddle dum 

 

In came the robin and thus he said 

I love’d once a well-favours maid 

Her beauty kindled such a spark 

That on my breast I bear the mark 

 

Then said the green finch as she flew 

I loved one and proved untrue 

And since he can no more be seen 

Like a lovesick maid I turn to green 

 

And next there spoke the Willy Wagtail 

I was once in love and I did prevail 

I was once in love and I did prevail 

And ever since I wag my tail 

With me aye de aye de aye diddle dum 

 

Oh said the bonnie nightingale 

Then must I end my mournful tale 

Whilst others sing I sit and mourn 

Leaning on my breast against a thorn 

 

Then says the lapwing as she flies 

I search the meadows and the skies 

But cannot find my love again 

So about I fly in deadly pain 

 

And last there spoke the Jennie Wren 

Do you know what I’d do if I was a man? 

For fear that one would wriggle and go 

I would were two strings upon my bow 

With me aye de aye de aye diddle dum

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