The Cuckoo's Nest (the other version) Traditional English Folksong - Jolly Rogers arrangement

There's a corner in the meadow where the lads and lasses meet

Oh they do here what they couldn't do in the open street

They play all kinds of games there, but the one I like the best

Is where every laddie rumples up the cuckoo's nest

Chorus:

It's high the cuckoo, low the cuckoo, high the cuckoo's nest

It's high the cuckoo, low the cuckoo, high the cuckoo's nest

I'll give any maid a shilling and a bottle of the best

Just to rumple up the feathers of her cuckoo's nest

I wooed her in the morning and I had her in the night

She was my very first one so I tried to do it right

I searched around and wandered and I never would have guessed

If she hadn't showed me where to find her cuckoo's nest

Chorus:

It's high the cuckoo, low the cuckoo, high the cuckoo's nest

It's high the cuckoo, low the cuckoo, high the cuckoo's nest

I'll give any maid a shilling and a bottle of the best

Just to rumple up the feathers of her cuckoo's nest

When she showed me where to find it I knew just where to go

Through the underbrush and brambles where the little cuckoos grow 

From the moment that I found it, she would never let me rest

From rumpling up the feathers of her cuckoo's nest

Chorus:

It's high the cuckoo, low the cuckoo, high the cuckoo's nest

It's high the cuckoo, low the cuckoo, high the cuckoo's nest

I'll give any maid a shilling and a bottle of the best

Just to rumple up the feathers of her cuckoo's nest

It was bushy, it was prickled, it was feathered all around

It was tucked away so neatly and it wasn't easy found

She said young man you're blundering, but I knew it wasn't true

For I left her with the makings of a young cuckoo

Chorus:

It's high the cuckoo, low the cuckoo, high the cuckoo's nest

It's high the cuckoo, low the cuckoo, high the cuckoo's nest

I'll give any maid a shilling and a bottle of the best

Just to rumple up the feathers of her cuckoo's nest

It's high the cuckoo, low the cuckoo, high the cuckoo's nest

It's high the cuckoo, low the cuckoo, high the cuckoo's nest

I'll give any maid a shilling and a bottle of the best

Just to rumple up the feathers of her cuckoo's nest