Magpie

Song Magpie
Artist Ian Tyson
Album Live at Longview

Lyrics

[00:02.95] Magpie
[00:11.20] Patrick Wolf
[00:19.01]
[00:43.79] Magpie, was it you who stole the wedding ring
[00:55.87] Or what other thieving bird would steal such hope away
[01:10.81] Magpie, I am lost among the hinterland,
[01:23.07] caught among the bracken and the ferns and the boys who have no name.
[01:32.28]
[01:33.55] There's no name for us.
[01:36.67] Still we sing.
[01:38.19]
[01:50.00] And still we sing.
[01:52.78]
[02:06.76] Little boy, little boy, lost and blue,
[02:21.29] Listen now, let me tell you what to do.
[02:33.08] You can run on, run along, alone or home between the knees of her;
[02:46.26] All among her bracken and her ferns and the boy will have a name.
[02:56.12]
[02:59.29] We will sing.
[03:12.62] And we will sing.
[03:14.74]
[03:26.85] One for sorrow.
[03:30.14] Two for joy.
[03:33.42] Three for a girl.
[03:36.78] Four for a boy.
[03:40.12] Five for silver.
[03:43.42] Six for gold.
[03:47.05] Seven for a secret, never to be told
[03:54.75]