Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles/The cuckoo

by Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick

For other versions of this work, see The Cuckoo (traditional).

THE CUCKOO.

The Cuckoo's a bonny bird,
She sings as she flies,
She brings us good tidings,
And tells us no lies.
She sucks little birds' eggs
To make her voice clear,
And never cries Cuckoo!
Till spring time of the year.