The Cuckoo

https://youtu.be/EDHiLrD_kd4?si=AIT_v6u9Oa-5P5c4 The cuckoo's a pretty bird She sings as she flies She brings us good tidings Tells us no lies She sucks her little bird's eggs To keep her voice clear And when she sings cuckoo The summer draws near As I walked down by the side of a bush I heard two birds whistling The blackbird and the thrush I asked them the reason so merry they be And the answer they gave me "We are single and we are free" A-walking, a-talking, a-walking was I To meet my true lover, he'll come by and by To meet him in the meadows is all my delight A-walking and talking from morning 'til night Meeting is pleasure but parting is a grief And an inconstant lover is worse than a thief A thief can but rob me and take all I have But an inconstant lover sends me to the grave And the grave it will rot me and bring me to dust An inconstant lover no maiden can trust They'll court you and kiss you and vow they'll be true And the very next moment they'll bid you adieu The cuckoo's a pretty bird She sings as she flies She brings us good tidings Tells us no lies And when her time is come Her voice we don't hear And where she goes we do not know Until another year