David Rotheray - The Sparrow The Thrush & The Nightingale lyrics

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The sparrow and the thrush and the nightingale

Have put their love-songs up for sale

Old mister sparrow said "it’s for the best

Think of the chicks now - we’ve got to invest

We could lie in bed almost every day

It was such a silly song - anyway

We got to get up every morning at six

And I’m living in a house that’s made of sticks

If we could give all that music a rest

We can move ourselves to a bigger nest

I never really knew what the song was about

So let’s all fly away and rent the old nest out”

Now said mister thrush- "may I disagree?

I’m sick of living in a tree

I’ve always been such a hard-working bird

Singing my love-songs to please the world

It’s time to get ourselves a respectable house

Sitting on a nest - what was that all about?”

The nightingale was the last to speak

He said “hang on boys now listen to me

For I am the bird with a song so sweet

That everybody weeps when I open my beak

And all of our fans call you ‘the other two’

So I should get a little bit more than you”

The very next day when I happened on by

Empty the nest wasand empty the sky

From the trees there was never a sound

But blood and feathers on the ground

I really can’t imagine what the problem could be

When everybody knows that music is free

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