[lit-ideas] Re: Blackbird
- From: Ceridwen Harris <cmharris@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 07:47:43 -0400
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>Another recording is available on http://www.10x50.com/sounds.htm
Incidentally there is a well known West Country song " The Blackbird" -
viz: The Wurzels version ( one of many)
THE BLACKBIRD The Wurzels
Key: D
Chorus:
D G A
Where be it blackbird to? I know where 'e be.
D
'E be up yon Wurzel tree and I be ar'ter 'e!
G
Now I sees 'e, and 'e sees I - buggered if I don't get 'n!
D A G D A D
With a gr't big stick I'll knock'n down - Blackbird I'll 'ave 'ee!
Chorus:
D G
All me life I'm on the farm, workin' fer me keep,
A D
Tendin' pigs and chickens, handlin' cows and sheep,
G
But everywhere I'm workin' there's one who always mocks me
A D A D
He's hiding somewhere in the trees - Blackbird, I'll 'ave 'ee:
Underneath the open sky in spring we likes to dine:
We likes to hear the flappin' of the missus' washin' line.
We listens to a tuneful song - a blackbird or a tit,
But on me vest and undiepants 'e scored a direct 'it.
Chorus
If I goes out poachin', a-creepin' through the fields,
With me old retriever a-followin' at me 'eels,
If I aim me shotgun at a pheasant in the hay,
That bloody blackbird starts 'is row and frightens 'n away.
Chorus
No longer can I sleep at night - get peace of any kind:
That bird'll be the death of me - he's preyin' on me mind.
If I chase 'n long enough I'll get 'n by and by,
And celebrate me victory with a girt big blackbird pie!
Final Chorus, repeat last line.
Ceri
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