Here's the version we plan to record when we gets the chance: By Charlie Ipcar 11/26/14 Tune: traditional after "The Topman and the Afterguard" Key: F(5/C) Vulture Culture C-----------------------G------G7 The Cuckoo, she's a pretty bird, ------C--------F----C--G And so's the Tur-tle Dove, ----------C--------------G------------G7 But the fairest bird a-mong them all ----C---------------G--C Is one you'd nev-er love! -----------------------F-------------G7 She's the Vulture, oh so grace-ful, C-------------F---C---G-----G7 Watch her glid-ing high a-bove; --------C-----------------G---G7 The vulture is the fair-est bird, ------C--------G----------C And she de-serves our love! Chorus: -----------------------F-------------G7 She's the Vulture, oh so grace-ful, C-------------F---C---G-----G7 Watch her glid-ing high a-bove; --------C-----------------G---G7 The Vulture is the fair-est bird, ------C--------G----------C And she de-serves our love! I call her fair for she never steals, Or lays eggs in other nests; She's never vain or ever rude; The Vulture's the perfect guest! See her feathers, glossy black, Gray her shy and balding head; She never strikes to kill her prey, Dines only on the dead! (CHO) The Osprey dives to strike her prey; The Vulture sits and waits; When other birds have et their fill, She sidles up to the plate; She never fusses 'bout their leavings, Not one chirp of sad protest; She digs right in with her sharp beak, Then slugs it down with zest. (CHO) If there's reward for toil and strife When comes the final test: For cleaning up what others leave, The Vulture is the best; Hear her sing, though not so soothing As the cooing Turtle Dove; The Vulture is the fairest bird And she deserves our love! CHO)
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