[Lyric] Magpie (Oshima Brothers)

Hello mister magpie and how’s your wife today
Will you teach me all your secrets before I go astray
Well I heard this rhyme about you and your family
But this morning I see just you I’ll tell you anyway

They say one’s for sorrow
And two’s for joy
Three’s for my baby
And four’s for this boy

Well I walk across the moor now the sun is rising from her bed
And I see the morning magpies as they are flying overhead

Ms. magpie swoops down landing in a tree
She says listen to your heart now and stop trusting all you see
They say one’s for sorrow
And two’s for joy
Three’s for my baby
And four’s for this boy

Magpie fly magpie fly magpie fly
Away away away away
They say one’s for sorrow
And two’s for joy
Three’s for my baby
And four’s for this boy
Five’s for silver
And six for gold
And seven’s for secrets they’re never to be told
They’re never to be told

Hello mister magpie and how’s your wife today
Will you teach me all your secrets before I go astray