Ring-A-Ding Bird-Bert Jansch

[00:08.48]Oh ring-a-ding [00:10.57]Oh ring-a-ding [00:12.32]Little bird [00:13.39]Oh ring-a-ding [00:14.76]Oh ring-a-ding [00:16.82]Little bird [00:17.95]Oh ring-a-ding [00:18.89]Oh ring-a-ding [00:20.83]Little bird [00:21.70]How silly sound the rain drops [00:24.32]Are dancing at my feet [00:27.20]And tingling on my face [00:29.32]It seems to sparkle yeah, then weeps for me [00:35.64]And they carried by a dream [00:38.14]of raindrops to the night [00:40.95]A song I hear a jingling [00:43.76]and sweetly does it call [00:48.20]Oh ring-a-ding [00:49.20]Oh ring-a-ding, bird [00:53.89] [00:55.46]sing your song for me [01:02.58] [01:03.15]Hey, little bird [01:05.27]I walk beneath the trees [01:07.96]And I see an ageless man [01:10.84]Who plays a timeless tune [01:13.71]Upon a golden banjo [01:16.28]And he sings a song of laughter [01:19.84]And sadness that whispers [01:24.40]to the darkness of the trees [01:29.34]Oh ring-a-ding [01:30.34]Oh ring-a-ding [01:32.21]Little bird [01:33.15]Oh ring-a-ding [01:34.40]Oh ring-a-ding [01:36.34]Little bird [01:37.46]Oh ring-a-ding [01:38.59]Oh ring-a-ding [01:40.53]Oh ring-a-ding bird in a ding-dong tree [01:45.77]Won't you sing a song to me [01:48.46]Oh crazy little bird of my dreams [01:56.53]And now I see [01:58.52]A dancing boy who steps the stones [02:01.09]That mark the path of time [02:03.34]To catch the wind that blows his blues away [02:08.65]Oh ring-a-ding bird, can't you see the sadness [02:13.60]That's deep in his eyes? [02:17.15]Little bird, [02:18.21]Oh ring-a-ding [02:19.53]Oh ring-a-ding [02:21.53]Little bird [02:22.46]Oh ring-a-ding [02:23.46]Oh ring-a-ding [02:25.52]Little bird [02:26.52]Oh ring-a-ding [02:27.65]Oh ring-a-ding, bird [02:30.96]Sitting high [02:32.34]I wonder now why you don't fly away [02:36.28]Little bird of my dreams [02:43.89]Hey little bird [02:45.39]Please set me free [02:47.32]I beg of you [02:50.76]For now I see [02:55.32]A strange young girl [02:57.82]Who is standing there [03:00.58]And she cries alone [03:03.57]Beneath the branches [03:06.39]That are hangin' splendour [03:08.95]Who's she might be [03:11.72]Lord, I'll never know [03:13.85]Until I'm free [03:22.42]Must I pass her by? [03:29.42]How I wish you could hear [03:33.42]What is calling on me [03:37.86]Strange young girl [03:39.29]Set me free from the spell [03:45.18]And a-hold me to thy breast [03:50.42]Then lead me from the woodland [03:54.67]And the call that I hear [04:00.04]Oh ring-a-ding [04:01.73]Oh ring-a-ding [04:03.86]Little bird [04:05.04]Oh ring-a-ding [04:06.15]Oh ring-a-ding [04:07.78]Little bird [04:08.97]Oh ring-a-ding [04:10.03]Oh ring-a-ding [04:12.00]Little bird [04:13.13]Oh ring-a-ding [04:14.19]Oh ring-a-ding [04:15.81]Set me free [04:17.31]Oh ring-a-ding [04:18.26]Oh ring-a-ding [04:20.07]Set me free, oh little bird [04:22.19]Oh ring-a-ding [04:26.94]Oh ring-a-ding [04:31.07]Oh ring-a-ding