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Coo Coo Bird
Doc Watson & Frosty Morn
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Oh, the cuckoo she's a fine bird
And she sings as she flies
She'll cause you no trouble
For she'll tell you no lies
I'll build me a cabin
On the mountain so high
I'll think of my true love
As she passes me by
Her love is like a spring day
That swiftly turns cold
She cares not for true love
But only for gold
Make my grave on the hillside
Near the nest of the dove
So she can mourn o'er me
Like I mourn for my love
Oh, the cuckoo she's a fine bird
She sings as she flies
She'll cause you no trouble
For she'll tell you no lies
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And now I'd like to welcome to the stage my grandson, Merle's son
Richard Watson. Son, bring that pretty little guitar on out here
And we'll pick 'em a few. I'd like to do a blues here that Merle
And I kind of put together out of some old blues lines that we'd
Heard over this, this where and that where as I started to say
Getting things turned around tonight here. Can't get my, keep my
Tongue untangled from around my eyetooth there, Merle. Richard
Half the time I call him Merle and I guess he's proud of that
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