Name: Mr Magpie
Duration: P00H05M44S
Description: Another superstition about greeting the Magpie, with a macabre twist.

Mr Magpie

from Underground by LadyAxe

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Another superstition about greeting the Magpie, with a macabre twist.

lyrics

The lord and lady walking, they wander off
Did not greet the bird that came to land
The lord took his pistol, aimed and fired
Left the bird to die in the sand

For many weeks he wondered about his kill
The Magpie that he ripped from life
But on his land another came to haunt
Dressed in black, he was looking for his wife

RHYME:
One for sorrow, two for mirth
I put your wife into the earth
Three times three, four for dreams
Listen to her horrid screams
One for sorrow, two for mirth
Three times three, four for dreams
Serenading me with her screams

One, two - curse you
Three, four - heed lore

CHORUS
One for sorrow, two for mirth
I put your darling wife into the earth
Three times three, four for dreams
Serenading me with her screams

Then the lady fair, disappeared
And the lord and his men did her seek
Found her lifeless body, eyes pecked out
Mr Magpie grimaced through his beak

CHORUS

One, two - curse you
Three, four - heed lore

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from Underground, released October 21, 2019

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LadyAxe Ballina, Ireland

Axe was the first female heavy metal artist in South Africa, back in 1992-3.

Now the Metal Matriarch is a solo artist that composes and plays everything herself, making home recordings where she lives in the Irish countryside. ... more