Cuckoo's Nest

from Pirates' Gold by The Jolly Rogers

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lyrics

There's a corner in the meadow where the lads and lasses meet,
for they do here what they couldn't do upon the open street.
They play all kinds of games there, but the one I like the best,
Is when everybody rumples up the cuckoo's nest.
Its high the cuckoo, low the cuckoo, high the cuckoos nest.
Its high the cuckoo, low the cuckoo, high the cuckoos 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]
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 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] x2

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from Pirates' Gold, released September 1, 1997

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The Jolly Rogers Kansas City, Missouri

Pirates before pirates were cool. The Jolly Rogers were born as the Earth still cooled, waaaay back in 1991. Bringing maritime music, sea shanties, drinking and bawdy songs to audiences before pirates were all the rage, they've been a main stage act at venues across America and Europe. ... more

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