The Gowk Bird (Scots Cuckoo)

Balquhidder hotters in the heat Sun's a gowd baa rowed up wi oo The glen's a quaich far burn's rin swete The gowk bird sings cuckoo cuckoo A calfie heists his knobbly heid His mither bells a saft balloo In neuks a heeze o midgies breed The gowk bird sings cuckoo cuckoo Struck tunin forks are reeshlin aiks There's nae fause note here. Aa is true The lintie lilts, the paddock craiks The gowk bird sings cuckoo cuckoo Hyne frae the traffic's din an birr Hyne frae the city's steer an styoo Tod pairts the girse, winged spurgies whirr The gowk bird sings cuckoo cuckoo It kens the fowk fa veesit here Will vanish like the fleetin dew Each hoose o flesh maun disappear The gowk bird sings cuckoo cuckoo