Mockingbird Mockingbird MarMar

Have you heard the mocking bird
When she tries to sing
Mockingbird mockingbird, she wish she were queen

With a broken crown
With tattered down
Her brass bells all miss the hour
Where young water flows
To only where the St. John's knows
She perches on her bower

The worn out ward where her ashen wings
Beat softly on the soot stained stones
Where roots and reeds and all their trees
Grow gently on the town hall bones
Mockingbird, mockingbird, she wish she were queen

The cardinal and the robin
Impressionable beings  
They invoke the dove
And they vote the bramble king

But it caught them by the pinions
And did choke them down
And now at the vineyard
Not one like them can be found

She sings for them, this MarMar
The songs of the now dead
Thus bramble put a bounty
On the little thrush's head

They put a belle about her neck
and her countenance was shrouded
Her wings could not bear her
so she tumbled to the ground
Why Mockingbird, mockingbird, do you wish you were queen

For I've seen lowliness in her glory
In black and in white
I've seen loneliness in the streets
The squares and the market place
I've seen those not slain
And they mock and they scream
Mockingbird, mockingbird, she wish she were queen

Crows set antebellum on fire
The Jay bird wants the bracken king
And Mockingbird, oh mockingbird, she wish she were queen