If I was a king, I'd make you my queen I'd row you in my arm where the meadows are so green And I'd hold you in my thoughts as I laid down to rest Me and my Colleen in the magpie's nest
In the magpie's nest In the magpie's nest In the magpie's nest
And I know there is a cut so bright and so clean That stands along the shadows where the meadows are so green And I'd never met a Colleen with such beauty blessed As the one so fair in the magpie's nest
In the magpie's nest In the magpie's nest In the magpie's nest
I've wandered through Kerry and I've wandered through Claire From Boston down to Jersey, from there to God knows where And I'd never met a Colleen with such beauty blessed As the one so fair in the magpie's nest
In the magpie's nest In the magpie's nest In the magpie's nest In the magpie's nest In the magpie's nest In the magpie's nest In the magpie's nest
