She's Cuckoo

(album: Downside Up - 2004)

Wryneck laughter from gatherings of stony chit chat
As the sea swallows a golden-eye beneath it's black hat
A scarlet stealer it's a cardinal sin

Dabchick Dipper do a Thick-kneed Tern
Rough-legged Buzzard watch the Butcher Bird burn

Cuckoo, she's Cuckoo for you

Nightjar purring like a sewing machine
Sheer-water keeps this Kingfisher clean
I'm a Black Throated Diver in a cherry Tree Creeper
Wax your Wings now I'm a Turnstone leaper

Scratch your Whitethroat with a Razorbill
Red-back Shrikes 'neath a Yellowhammer drill

Cuckoo, she's Cuckoo for you

Oyster-catcher in the still of the night
Hooded Crow spirals like a Merlin Kite
Chiff-chaff chokes silent as a low Pintail
Storm-Cock screams into the teeth of a gale

Tie Bunting Knots around a Goatsucker
Hear it toy toy oh hear it chucker chucker

Cuckoo, she's Cuckoo for you