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 prickled, 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