There's a pond
brush in the garden
where the lads and lassies meet
But it wouldn't do to do
the do they're doing in the street
At the first time when I come there
I was very much impressed
By the young folks busy rumbling
up the cuckoo's nest
It's hi, the cuckoo, ho, the cuckoo,
hi, the cuckoo's nest
It's hi, the cuckoo, ho, the cuckoo,
hi, the cuckoo's nest
I'll get any man a -shivvin'
and a bottle of the best
And add a rump a -lump of hell
to the cuckoo's nest
I met her in the mornin'
and I took her in the night
I never had another,
so I had to do it right
I'd never gone that way before,
and I never would have guessed
If she hadn't shown me
where to find the cuckoo's nest
It's hi the cuckoo, ho the cuckoo,
hi the cuckoo's nest
It's hi the cuckoo, ho the cuckoo,
hi the cuckoo's nest
Why, we've any man a -shillin'
and a -barkin' at the nest
That'll rumble up the feathers
of the cuckoo's nest
Ah, she told me how to find it,
and she showed me where to go
Through the pickles and the brambles
where the little cuckoos crawled
From the minute I found it
she would never let me rest
Until I rumpled up the feathers
of a cuckoo's nest
It's hi the cuckoo, ho the cuckoo,
hi the cuckoo's nest
It's hi the cuckoo, ho the cuckoo,
hi the cuckoo's nest
I only needed a shillin'
and a bottle of the best
And there I rumbled up the feathers
of a cuckoo's nest
It was thorny, it was prickled,
it was feathered all around
It was choked into a corner
and it wasn't easy found
She said, young man, you're blundering
I said, it isn't true
I left her with the nakeds
of a young cuckoo
It's hi the cuckoo, ho the cuckoo,
hi the cuckoo nest
Hi the cuckoo, ho the cuckoo,
hi the cuckoo nest
I'll give anyone a shillin'
and a bottle of the best
And a rumble of the fat
of the cuckoo's nest