Oh the cuckoo, she's a fine bird
Don't she warble as she flies
She don't never holler coo coo
Till the fourth of July
Oh the cuckoo, she's a fine bird
Don't I wish she was mine
She won't never drink water
She always drink wine
Don't you kill her, little cuckoo
She won't do you no harm
She will eat up all the ground worms that destroy that farm
Oh the cuckoo, she's a wise bird
Goes down south and fall
She goes down to old ???
Where the snow never falls
Oh the cuckoo, she's a wise bird
Built her nest in the pines
She goes high up in the timbers
Where the snakes never climb
Oh the cuckoo, she's a fine bird
Don't she warble as she flies
She don't never holler coo coo
Till the fourth of July