Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Kristin Hersh
Canonical path: /hersh-kristin/the-cuckoo
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Cuckoo
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The Cuckoo
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Oh the cuckoo
She's a pretty bird
She wobbles when she flies
She don't ever hollar cuckcoo
Till the fourth day of July
Jack o' Diamonds
Jack o' Diamonds
I know you, of old
You rob my poor pockets
Of silver and gold
Oh the cuckcoo
She's a pretty bird
I wish that she were mine
She don't ever drink water
She only drink wine
Gonna build me
A log cabin
On a mountain so high
So I can see Willie
When he goes on by
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Kristin Hersh performs "The Cuckoo", and this lyric page sits inside the Kristin Hersh catalog on LyroVerse.
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