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As I was a walking one morning in May,
I met a pretty fair maid and unto her did say:
"I'll tell you me mind, it's for love I am inclined,
And me inclination lies in your cuckoo's nest."
"Me darling," says she, "I am innocent and young,
And I scarcely can believe your false deluding tongue;
Yet I see it in your eyes and it fills me with surprise,
That your inclination lies in me cuckoo's nest."
Some like a girl who is pretty in the face,
And some like a girl who is slender in the waist;
But give me a girl who will wriggle and will twist,
At the bottom of her belly lies the cuckoo's nest.
"Me darling," says me, "if you can see it in me eyes,
Then think of it as fondness and do not be surprised;
For I love you, me dear, and I'll marry you I swear,
If you'll let me clap my hand on your cuckoo's nest."
"Me darling," says she, "I can do no such thing,
For me mother often told me it was committing sin,
Me maidenhead to lose and me sex to be abused,
So have no more to do with me cuckoo's nest."
Some like a girl who is pretty in the face,
And some like a girl who is slender in the waist;
But give me a girl who will wriggle and will twist,
At the bottom of her belly lies the cuckoo's nest.
"Me darling," says me, "it's not committing sin,
But common sense should tell you it is a pleasing thing;
For you were brought into this world to increase and do your best,
And to help a man to heaven in your cuckoo's nest."
"Me darling," says she, "I cannot you deny,
For you've surely won my heart by the rolling of your eye;
Yet I see it in your eyes that your courage is surprised,
So gently lift your hand into me cuckoo's nest."
Some like a girl who is pretty in the face,
And some like a girl who is slender in the waist;
But give me a girl who will wriggle and will twist,
At the bottom of her belly lies the cuckoo's nest.
This couple they got married and soon they went to bed,
And now this pretty fair maid has lost her maidenhead;
In a small country cottage they increase and do their best,
And he often claps his hand on her cuckoo's nest.
Some like a girl who is pretty in the face,
And some like a girl who is slender in the waist;
But give me a girl who will wriggle and will twist,
At the bottom of her belly lies the cuckoo's nest.
This variant is archived at the Digital Tradition DT #1409- CUKONEST without an accredited source.
A single chorus of this song was added to three verses of chin music in a variant collected in 1960 from Mrs. Nellie Musseau of Mouse Island, NL, by Kenneth Peacock and published as The Cuckoo's Nest in Songs Of The Newfoundland Outports, Volume 1, pp.259-260, by The National Museum Of Canada (1965) Crown Copyrights Reserved.
