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Thread #21135   Message #223986
Posted By: TerriM
06-May-00 - 08:37 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Where Be That Blackbird To?
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Where be that Blackbird to?
I know where there's a blackbirds nest
I know where 'e be
'e be in yon wurzel bush
An' I be arter 'e

'e spies I, I spies 'e
'E calls I a bugger and a liar
If I gets 'old of that blackbirds nest
I'll catch the bugger on fire

Down on the farm for four and twenty years
'e's tried to take the rise out of I
There baint no bird on this yere farm
Can 'ide it's nesy from I

I wish I was back 'ome in Dorset
Where the birds they fly so high
I claps my 'ands and I laughs like buggery
Just to see they blackbirds fly

That's an approximation of the vernacular, as best as I can do it. I've been singing this song for years and as far as I know that's all there is. I learned it in Wiltshire from a local singer who'd been singing it since he was a kid.