The Wurzels - Blackbird

[@HardRockMiner]

My dad used to sing this to me when I was a tiny boy.. He is on his death bed today with very little time left. For some reason this crossed my mind just now and I figured I'd check to see if KZbin had it. Thank you for posting this!! Pray my dad passes peacefully please

[@elroyfudge3683]

prayed for his soul,,,I am a Yank married an English Lassie, getting my instructions

[@mirelleryan455]

Well sorry ik I'm a little bit late hope everything is okay and hope he is safe now :))

[@WizzardJC]

@@mirelleryan455comments two years old and we both find it about a week apart, mad, yea I hope all is well as it could be too

[@lynmatthews8252]

Hello hope he passed peacefully. Not sure why I’m here! I do believe he’s gone to somewhere wonderful.

[@tobco79]

Saw The Wurzels live in 2019 in Frome, UK 🇬🇧🎸🎼😎❤️ Legends

[@stuey2ey]

9 people disliked because a blackbird has continuously and mercilessly thwarted their efforts.

[@darkangelw8472]

Lol 😂

[@ashleytaylor2513]

This made my day

[@MartinK303]

I'm from Lancashire, but I have maxium respect for anyone from the West Country because of this band!

[@DRAGN.]

Bristolian and proud!!!

[@fredglavin4271]

I know I live there it was a compliment

[@iudexmortem1139]

+TFTLGaming Same here. Born and bred

[@BrewersNook]

i finished my college course recentley and the wurzles not only gave out the awards but also did a concert aswell nothing compares to seeing your idols in person! LONG LIVE THE WEST COUNTRY, AND LONG LIVE THE WURZLES!!

[@boorose666]

Every Newfie alive knows this one!!! God Bless.

[@canadaeast8358]

For sure haha

[@mcscotty325]

I thought it was a Newfie song.

[@fletcherraymond4498]

Somerset and Bristolian and proud 🙌🙌

[@declanhall5961]

🙌🙌

[@jamesbunney3887]

Cornwalls where’s it’s at✊🏽✊🏽

[@owenashman9267]

Bristol rugby and Bristol city all the way

[@fletcherraymond4498]

@@owenashman9267 play for the rugby myself actually but hell yes 🙌

[@drtq9]

Bristol Rovers til the end

[@TheUnrealGFX]

This was played at my friends funeral, and I know he is smiling at me watching this for him :') RIP Harry x

[@Ade6464]

lol. Why is everyone arguing over this song? I am a middle-aged, middle-class black man from Somerset. I grew up with The Wurzels and clearly remember their early days in Nailsea. Adge Cutler (A.J. Alan John) the original singer who sadly died in a car accident (an MG if you're interested) was godfather to my late great friend, Alex Batt. It's all a laugh and everything's ok in the world as long as The Wurzels are still about

[@AmandaRules4ever]

I heard this when I was a little kid remembering all the lyrics so quickly, singing it with my father. Such a fun time, such a fun song to hear again after many years!! What a treat!

[@roderickherbert7233]

Brings back lovely memories..Good times by all especially rugby functions..We were all happy in those days

[@Daniea3]

Favourite childhood tune from Southern Newfoundland!! And here I thought we were the only ones who says "gurt big". LMAO. It came across from Somerset.

[@cheyloo]

I'm from Wisconsin, in the United States! My Dad brought back Wurzel's singles when he was on a business trip in Europe in 1976. I was 11 and I knew all the words I could make out. Just came across the records and found these here! Would sure appreciate the correct lyrics. I love these guys!

[@WizzardJC]

Very late but If you need a proper translation I don’t mind haha

[@amyc6098]

used to love this song when I was younger.. :')

[@grahamkennethgarbutt9261]

West country, n proud!

[@reececoles]

This iz why I love being from Somerset!!! Also the lead singer lives just like down the road from me and it iz most fun ever havin gigs with him

[@bedojames]

My cat would love this. She loves to unsuccessfully catch our blackbirds in garden, at least this year so far June 2023.

[@luna_Drag0n1406_quit]

I love this song. I'm listening to it bc I miss my family. Back in Bristol, and my family is always listening to it :)

[@Autistic-Noice-British-Panda]

So hard and catchy I love it I can’t get enough of it❤❤

[@jdmforever5583]

My father played this when I was a kid kind of corny now but sure brings back good memories❤

[@Munchypotatoe]

Im from gloucestershire and I talk like this as well, heck of an accent really good 'ol wurzels

[@mayhemrw]

Brilliant! I've been looking for this one for a while.

[@plumster33]

This is what makes me proud to be from Somerset good old Wurzels

[@Bugman541]

Proper job

[@justhopex6672]

You mean id be from somerset good 'ol wurzels

[@lukedowns2846]

FRom down Zummerzzet way.

[@jamescollins1693]

If we were a country this would be our national anthem

[@jameswonder7192]

They're from Bristol, I thought.

[@Bishpo]

And now ladies & gentlemen for your entertainment, a reading of Edgar Allen Poe's timeless classic, The Raven. Adapted and told by our esteemed guests tonight, The Wurzles, thank you.

[@kevincooper5453]

I had this record when I was a kid they were the best band in the West country where I went to school.

[@jonathanharris641]

im welsh but i feckin LOVE this song!

[@AnthonyD-yy2in]

I remember some of my school mates singing this song all the time in the spring of 1976!

[@squeakymonkfish]

Classic. Love the Wurzels!

[@meganpearcee]

Love the countryside wouldn't live anywhere else!

[@legitgamer4346]

Saw these at the great dorset steam fair and loved them ever since which is a bit weird for a 15 year old boy

[@ronanwoods2543]

nah 14 and i love em too! though i didnt go and see em this year i remember a few years back they used to have a little tent and play their music there next to the showman's line they didn't have a stage back then! Most have gotten a bit more popular!

[@justinheranus33]

West Country > any other place in England

[@draconismagister]

woo the wurzles are awsome i saw them several times at the bierkeller i have met the wurzles they are brilliant

[@leopardbookshop7761]

The Wurzels have been my fav band since I was 7! Where be that here blackbird?!

[@adammoor1338]

these guys are west country legends

[@TheTatramaco]

Half the lyrics are written incorrectly but you’ve got to love this song!

[@arthurvasey]

Badly translated from Somersetese into English by a Geordie!

[@rhisands2063]

Gert some scrumpy in thee, an this words'll come right.

[@thekittennetwork6753]

How's thee father - alright! Growing up in Newfoundland, we thought this was a Newfoundland band - it's our dialect exactly. Needless to say, many of our ancestors were from Somerset & other West English counties

[@sallyjoan]

no actually they are not

[@Sue-z8b]

Oh yes they are !

[@BrewersNook]

the Wurzels and the yeo valley advert is what sums up Bristol!

[@lukedowns2846]

The best translation I have seen. Innit.

[@JimmyMcKellar]

Respect from Edinburgh!

[@gremlinuk1968]

liked , from,, northern Ireland,,! , 1st hear early 80s,!!

[@MannieCharlotte]

love this song! describes my dad to a tee

[@newforestpixie5297]

At least the “westcountry “ accent and ‘culture’ has got a million hits. I live 2 miles from Dorset’s most eastern edge but the majority of folks believe that The New Forest is a park at the edge of Greater London rather than the eastern extremity of the westcountry. ( bransgore receives westcountry telly anyway..) best wishes from the pixies in the land of ‘sit -on ‘ mowers driven by ex pat Londoners.....

[@Vdubin24]

Good Ol Wurlzels :) I live like 20 miles away from em :')

[@jordanmarsh5441]

Love this song everytime hits the spot for me up the cityyy come on boys

[@beorwulf29]

Imperfect understanding of us dialect, me 'ansome! Where be to? Oi bet youm from Lunnun!

[@samhill487]

Them there folk don't be unnerastanning our talk me babber

[@WizzardJC]

Is it bad or good I understood what you ment, I a Dorset guy

[@abbielovesoasis]

aha im from the same place as these guys we always sing this at new years ahah reminds me of my grandad he used to sing it to me when i was little X)

[@wendykara1]

OMG just love it!

[@3tangle3]

@xxDannyMillerFanxx this accent stretched right to reading right uptil 1960/70s......its the original southern saxon way of speaking....but the london sounds are taking over and west country is looked down on

[@CLdrums]

From Nailsea and proud!

[@Butsugen8]

wicked, love it.

[@markpenna9139]

the amount of people that think they are devonshire ! but we know the truth ! brilliant band seen them many times live love them every time !! im from devon

[@oxoxbubblebabeoxox]

I LOVE THIS SONG

[@alfieharrison2210]

This reminds me of Bristol city games!!COYR

[@stephenrichards144]

Love this song wicked

[@leslieboyd-cox4846]

Love this song xx

[@visualdrone]

I from Devon but I still love this song

[@mitch69ish]

i am herefordshire and love it has well but we make better cider

[@JohnMacbeth]

mitch69ish bollocks

[@80ki68]

@@mitch69ish That's Midlands but sure.

[@sebastianharris-aldred8057]

@@mitch69ish Somerset make the best cider

[@Kitkat8toffee]

My whole childhood was based on the wurzels!!!!! Best somerset band

[@GamerBully]

amazing song!!!

[@danielskilton6666]

I was at a Lord Finesse concert and Big L was just about to be introduced to the world. I think it was either DJ Premier or Kid Capri opened with this, to warm the crowd. Infact Teminator X did exactly the same thing at Brixton academy in 1987, while the S 1 W ' s were showcasing their routines. Another time they used this , was in the Olympic breakdancing , championship, between Japan and France.

[@gwendelk]

I'm glad to hear this song here (it's been going through my head lately), even if the lyrics given are really wrong in places, e.g. "under callia sleep at night, get beasts of any kind" should be "no longer can I sleep at night, get peace of any kind".

[@FredFuchs77]

KZbin's CC option has a lot to answer for.

[@DuskRoamer]

i love this song

[@martinsearle7101]

Thanks for this. The lyrics aren’t quite right but they made my (Hampshire mum) laugh even more

[@mickcook8906]

cool great music

[@sandi43able]

@anessenator The West Country is Somerset, Devon Cornwall and Dorset. I love The Wurzels. I am from The East Midlands and have been a Wurzel fan since I was 12 years old

[@lawrencewhite4596]

My dad used to love this his bday tomorrow he ain't with is but hope he would love me playing all tracks

[@KerryLoudon]

Ahaha, i live in Somerset :P this cracks me up everytime, but hardly any of us are like .. farmers, only my grandad etc talks like this anymore xD

[@kenf3897]

i do ............ oooooo arrrrrrrr .....is he a farmer or is he a pirate ??? lol

[@daveelliott5855]

Thass cuz ther be to many outziders cum in, ee young townies dussum know we'r ee cum vrum, ee dussum av to go far to yur it mine ge' out yere in the sticks, iffie wan any lessuns leddus know 🤣🤣🤣 tiz a gert probber job anaul

[@Mobyy-g2s]

I have mostly lived in Bristol for 7 years and happy to be

[@2e1dxy]

Where be that Eejit be?, I know where he be❗️He be flying over the Irish Sea coming to see me ☘️☘️☘️

[@laceyandbo2576]

learnt this from my mum n dad brooo

[@user-jt1jv8vl9r]

This is perfect uni fare!

[@Dublinerz]

Hail ! Hail ! The Celts are here !

[@yatepremier9136]

I could pick so many faults in the translation but I like it as it is but here's the first verse:...where be that blackbird to?, I know where he be, he be up yon wurzel tree, and I be after 'ee, now I sees ee' and ee sees I, buggered if I don't get 'un, with a gert big stick i'll knock 'un down, blackbird, i'll 'ave ee. Proper somerset translation from a somerset boy.

[@twatmang1]

Stu Horsey Innum

[@lonewolfclan1073]

Stu Horsey tiz said the same down ear in Devun' to.

[@poppy1581]

Get this its are accent

[@bexxflowers-grant1987]

+Lonewolf Clan

[@mistanix]

turns around should be turfs a row

[@TheJackwk]

i sing this song with my friends wenever it comes on no matter were we are cause they are amazing

[@OoxB505]

Oh I love the fact that I was born in the West, Bristol through and through! ;')

[@Citrusgeorge]

DEVONSHIRE AND PROUD! PROPER JOB!

[@sophiabezooted5074]

love being able to correct this cus I'm Cornish lmao

[@billybob12352]

Lĺ

[@TheEmski26]

So am I I’m cornish

[@mollycarpenter7092]

You can't correct the wurzels

[@SunScream]

nice pfp and name, still chill don't ask why I'm replying to a year old comment

[@sebastianharris-aldred8057]

The Wurzels are from Somerset

[@randaranda4]

the wurzels! yes! very nice

[@reetpeet]

I'm from North Oxfordshire, but now live in Wiltshire and my Grandfather was from Gloucestershire, so my accent gets a bit confused sometimes! ;)

[@Liverpoolfc4eva89]

could be worse! I was born and bread Wiltshire but my mum and her side are Scouse! SO Im like a Scouser-Wiltshire lass! lol SO a great mixture for me so my accent is 100% confusing!

[@spalexy]

Had this on vinyl, shit hot!

[@minizip8348]

This is a surprisingly good song to sing on route marches haha

[@HarryPowell-jy9yd]

At Bristol University, guys used to sing this on the 3 tonner taking us back to OTC Headquarters

[@jeffreybunch3959]

We still have it.

[@cuteyangelkitten]

Lewis and Simon of the yogscast sent me and I'm not disappointed 😳

[@jakeotib3279]

What video?

[@georgebritten2111]

fellow Bristolians I believe

[@anessenator]

Proud to be a cider punk from Wilts! Arrrrr

[@kandycabin1497]

Love you wurzelz

[@apirate5232]

Yer. Any of you lot knows where I can get me blasted lawn mower fixed? Gert lush song by the Wuzels though. Proper Job!

[@keithlarsen7557]

You cut it's balls off. That's how I got mine fixed.

[@sk3llybob]

so catchy! :)

[@Standenanian]

Blackbirds have been real quiet since this dropped

[@davidstuckey5108]

Them sub-titles weren't written by a Bristolian. Such nonsense - and such a shame!

[@keithlarsen7557]

I'm an American and they don't even look right to me.

[@mrcrago62]

Im from Plymouth and I KNOW they t'aint right.

[@twatmang1]

t'aint right innem

[@michellecopeland]

No one north of Brizzle should ever attempt to quote the wurzels, but thanks for the upload anyway xx

[@Wi11i4mJM]

Casn't get it right snuh.

[@RachelMiaBabes]

Bristol born and bred, farmers accents for the win

[@milliefiler1748]

Yess love good Somerset music

[@Cornishfingers]

best song ever

[@richardwoods5873]

I learned this in early 1970s as a 20yo new trooper in the Wiltshire Yeomanry

[@Andromeda907]

Makes me miss home :( Sucks to be 90 miles away in Southampton for Uni. Though its fun to confuse people by saying "gurt lush" :)

[@michael90005]

how can they have13 dislike god !!!!!!!! best song in the world

[@millyhudson3942]

My brother sister love love this song actually That singing it right now

[@alexbridel]

Lots of wrong lyrics....bet a northern did the 'translation'

[@Bugman541]

They bastard northerns...E' dont speak proper loik wot we does inem

[@craigcook4467]

im a newfie. those are the lyrics i was brought up with

[@lukedowns2846]

Dreadfull tranzlation but a gertt lush tune in er!

[@crystalpalfrey6849]

Love this song my grandads dad died and he loved this song

[@ryancool20]

im soo proud to be a devoner :D

[@justwilll3680]

favourite song atm 😂

[@looniegaming9419]

Just Will dat face dough

[@jeffreybunch3959]

Wor , coming for you.😊