Ring-A-Ding Bird - Bert Jansch

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Little bird

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Little bird

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Little bird

How silly sound the rain drops

Are dancing at my feet

And tingling on my face

It seems to sparkle yeah, then weeps for me

And they carried by a dream

of raindrops to the night

A song I hear a jingling

and sweetly does it call

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding, bird

sing your song for me

Hey, little bird

I walk beneath the trees

And I see an ageless man

Who plays a timeless tune

Upon a golden banjo

And he sings a song of laughter

And sadness that whispers

to the darkness of the trees

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Little bird

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Little bird

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding bird in a ding-dong tree

Won’t you sing a song to me

Oh crazy little bird of my dreams

And now I see

A dancing boy who steps the stones

That mark the path of time

To catch the wind that blows his blues away

Oh ring-a-ding bird, can’t you see the sadness

That’s deep in his eyes?

Little bird,

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Little bird

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Little bird

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding, bird

Sitting high

I wonder now why you don’t fly away

Little bird of my dreams

Hey little bird

Please set me free

I beg of you

For now I see

A strange young girl

Who is standing there

And she cries alone

Beneath the branches

That are hangin' splendour

Who’s she might be

Lord, I’ll never know

Until I’m free

Must I pass her by?

How I wish you could hear

What is calling on me

Strange young girl

Set me free from the spell

And a-hold me to thy breast

Then lead me from the woodland

And the call that I hear

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Little bird

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Little bird

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Little bird

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Set me free

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Set me free, oh little bird

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding

Oh ring-a-ding