Key: C guitar chords in [ ]
[Am]There's a corner in the meadow where the [Em]lads and lasses meet
Oh they do here what they couldn't do [Am]in the open street
They [Am]play all kinds of games there, but the [Em]one I like the best
Is [Am]where every laddie rumples up the [Em]cuckoo's [Am]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
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 p****led, 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
[Am]There's a corner in the meadow where the [Em]lads and lasses meet
Oh they do here what they couldn't do [Am]in the open street
They [Am]play all kinds of games there, but the [Em]one I like the best
Is [Am]where every laddie rumples up the [Em]cuckoo's [Am]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
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 p****led, 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