“There Were Two Birds Sat on a Stone”

Description

""There were two birds sat on a stone, Fa la la lal de, One flew away and then there was one, Fa la la... The other flew after, and then there was none... And so the poor stone was left all alone." The (birds/crows) then fly back

Notes

Sounds like "The Twa Corbies" told from the standpoint of their original perch. But there are just enough mentions of it that I thought it had better go in the Index.

Charles Kingsley quoted two stanzas of this in _The Water Babies_. (1863):

Two little birds they sat on a stone,

One swam away, and then there was one,

With a fal-lal-la-lady.

The other swam after, and then there was none,

And so the poor stone was left all alone,

With a fal-lal-la-lady.

The quotation is in chapter seven. - RBW

References

1. Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #49, pp. 59-60, "(There were two birds sat on a Stone)"
2. Montgomerie-ScottishNR 19, "(There were two crows sat on a stone)" (1 text)
3. Opie-Oxford2 51, "There were two birds sat on a stone" (2 texts)
4. DT, CRAWSTAN
5. Roud #8906
6. BI, BGMG049