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Thread #15132   Message #133400
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
08-Nov-99 - 06:50 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Wren in the Furze (from The Chieftains)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chieftains version of The Wren
I know some of it goes skiddly iddly idle didle skiddly idley do, but I'm buggered if I can work out the rest of it!!

You might find something if you look under 'The King of all Birds'.

Some silly people may think that the eagle is the king of birds, but this is not so. The birds had a competition to see who would be king, so they all flew as high as they could. Soon, many of the birds had fallen, exhausted to the ground, not so the hawk, the owl and the eagle. After many hundreds of feet, only the owl and the eagle were left. The owl decided to give up whilst he still had strength to make a safe landing. The eagle soared higher and higher, shouting all the time, 'I'm king, I'm king!!'. But unknown to the eagle, the wren had been sitting on his back, and as the eagle got as high as he could go, the little wren took off. He flew even higher than the eagle, proving that although he was not stronger, he was cleverer, and so was made king. This is why the eagle is always trying to go that little bit further, and why the wren has to hide in the hedgerows, to keep away from the eagle's anger.

LTS