One Crow

[purpura]

One crow for Sorrow,
Two crows for Joy,
Three crows a daughter,
Four crows a boy,
Five crows for silver,
Six crows for gold,

Seven crows a secret that's never been told.

What's your version?

Comments

[featheredfrog]

Three Crows sat upon a wa'
Sat upon a wa', Sat upon a wa-a-a-a
Three Crows sat upon a wa'
On a cold and frosty morrrrrrnin'

(Scots accent preferred)

[ciaranmacleod]

nice icon...

[featheredfrog]

From the deck, with the artist's permission.

[badrahessa]

It's neat , but i've never heard of it before you ...

[mindymoon]

Mine is an amalgam. It goes:

One crow for sorrow
Two crows for mirth
Three for a funeral
Four for a birth
Five is for poverty
Six is for gold
Seven's a secret that's not to be told.

[purpura]

Thank you! I was really looking for different versions, not other crow songs. Not that Twa Corbies or the Three Ravens aren't great songs/poems... just not what I was looking for.

And I like your version better!

[mindymoon]

It leaves room for interpretation... birth = beginning... funeral = end of something...

Although more often than not, I either have no crows anywhere in sight or there are 48. What's 48? Can that be six? Should I divide that into groups? Should I add the digits, because that would make 12, which would then make 3. Sigh.

Cotton-pickers in the fields of the South down here have poems for circling carrion birds. I think my friend said that it goes up to... like... 25 or something.

[purpura]

48? I'd say that was a murder of crows!

I'd love to see the carrion bird poems. That sounds facinating!

[jousterbard]

One's for Sorrow
Two's for Joy
Three's for a Girl and
Four's for a boy
Five for Silver
Six for Gold and
Seven;s for a secret never told

Devil Devil I defy thee
Devil Devil I defy thee
Devil Devil I defy Thee

I cannot seem to remember the rest of the song
JB