Black bird black bird
Sitting in a tree
Black bird black bird
Looking down at me

Black bird black bird
Today you look so quaint
Black bird black bird
Have I come too late?

Black bird black bird
Sing your pretty song
Black bird black bird
Let me sing along

Black bird black bird
Whistle out your tune
Black bird black bird
Whistle to the moon

Black bird black bird
Up in the midnight sky
Black bird black bird
Tonight is when I die

Black bird black bird
The last thing I shall see
Black bird black bird
Blackened I will be

Black bird black bird
Feathers dark as ash
Black bird black bird
My life ends in a flash

Ash bird ash bird
Sing your sorrow song
Ash bird ash bird
I will sing along

Sing your sorrow song
Sing it out for me
And I will sing along
For ashes I shall be

Tell me, ash bird ash bird
How marvelous it will be
Pretty ash bird ash bird
When I am finally free