Cutty Wren

[Chorus]

Cutty wren, cutty wren

Oh, when will you sing again

And see off the gunmen

In the heart's deep den

Little wren?

[Chorus]

Cutty wren, cutty wren

Oh, when will you sing again

And see off the gunmen

In the heart's deep den

Little wren?

[Verse]

Will you come to the wood

Where the wren's nest is found

Where angels on each leaf

Are tallying up their quiet grief?

But what will we do there

In the wood of the birches?

Will wе sharpen our old bones

On midwinter's whеtstones?

[Chorus]

Cutty wren, cutty wren

Oh, when will you sing again

And see off the gunmen

In the heart's deep den

Little wren?

[Verse]

Oh, we'll seek out the wren there

The king bird and the hedge queen

She'll tell us the stories

Of might-bes and has-beens

Will she tell us the story

Of the death of the Lady

Her loss to the darkness

And her rising again?

[Chorus]

Cutty wren, cutty wren

Oh, when will you sing again

And see off the gunmen

In the heart's deep den

Little wren?

[Verse]

If we build her a byre

Of birch leaf and foxfire

And we stitch it all together

With needles of wren song

Spiderweb as thread

Is what we'll use for stitches

They've torn up the matrix

To sew up the glitches

[Chorus 2]

Only then, only then

Will the wren then sing again

Will the flame in the darkness

Be burning and burning

Only then, only then

Will the wren then sing again

Will the year's long tide

Be turning and turning