This song is not origionally by the wurzels!

I remember my grand father singing a version of this to me when I was a boy many years before the wurzels brought out a version with slightly different words!

My grandfather was origionally from south Devon and this song is a traditional west country folk song/ nursery rhyme.

The origional song lyrics as far as I remember are:


Where be that blackbird to I know where he be.
He be in yonder tree and I be at'er he.
I be at'er he all day and he be at'er me.
Where be that blackbird to I know where he be.

There may have been other verses but this was the origional west country song long before the wurzels used it in there song!