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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.