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16 May 00 - 12:49 PM (#228835) Subject: Ring-A-Ding Bird From: GUEST,colm@dis.strath.ac.uk Hello all, Thanks for a nice, useful site. I've managed to unpick Bert Jansch's epic guitar playing on Ring-A-Ding Bird (from the album It Don't Bother Me) but I can't quite decode the lyrics... Does anyone know them? I'm slightly concerned that if Jansch wrote the song then I'm probably inciting someone to copyright violation - is this the case? (I reckon Bert wouldn't mind....) Anyway, thanks for any help. |
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22 Apr 03 - 11:25 PM (#938220) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ring-A-Ding Bird (Bert Jansch) From: Jim Dixon I was able to transcribe this much from a couple of sound samples at Yahoo! Music. I failed to find any lyrics on the web, though, which is usually the case for Jansch songs. ...jingling and sweetly does it call. Oh ring-a-ding Oh ring-a-ding Oh ring-a-ding bird, sing your song for me. Hey, little bird, I walk beneath the trees And I see an ageless man Who plays a timeless tune Upon a golden banjo And he sings a song of laughter And sadness.... |
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17 Jan 12 - 05:55 PM (#3291763) Subject: Lyr Add: RING-A-DING BIRD (Bert Jansch) From: Jim Dixon Lyrics copied from http://letras.azmusica.com.br/letras_bert_jansch/letras_other/letra_ring-a-ding_bird.html and checked by me against the recording. I have made a few corrections according to how I hear it. RING-A-DING BIRD As sung by Bert Jansch on "It Don't Bother Me" (1965) Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Little bird Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Little bird Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Little bird How silly sound the rain drops Are dancing at my feet And tingling on my face It seems to sparkle yeah, then weeps for me And they carry it by a dream Of raindrops through the night A song I hear a-jingling And sweetly does it call Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding, bird Sing your song for me Hey, little bird I walk beneath the trees And I see an ageless man Who plays a timeless tune Upon a golden banjo And he sings a song of laughter And sadness that whispers To the darkness of the trees Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Little bird Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Little bird Oh, ring-a-ding Ring-a-ding Little bird Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding bird in a ding-dong tree Won't you sing a song to me Oh, crazy little bird of my dreams And now I see A dancing boy who steps the stones That mark the path of time To catch the wind that blows his blues away Oh, ring-a-ding bird, can't you see the sadness That's deep in his eyes? Little bird, Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Little bird Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Little bird Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding, bird Sitting high I wonder now why you don't fly away Little bird of my dreams Hey little bird Please set me free I beg of you For now I see A strange young girl Who is standing there And she cries alone Beneath the branches That are hangin' splendour Who she might be Lord, I'll never know Until I'm free Must I pass her by? How I wish you could hear What is calling on me Strange young girl Set me free from the spell And a-hold me to thy breast Then lead me from the woodland And the call that I hear Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Little bird Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Little bird Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Little bird Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Set me free Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Set me free, Oh, little bird Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding Oh, ring-a-ding |