You know the birds don't fly In the sunlit sky Near the isle of the crickets of Jiminy They had flown before But the throne bid war And the King's men k**ed off their enemies It was The Battle of Nigh When the kestrels cried "Retreat! Defeats on the wind!" For all the locusts swarmed To a potent storm And the battle soon drew to an end We're The Crickets of Jiminy Still the earth was wet From the blood they'd let And the pools, they set to collecting It seemed dissent and subversion
Had led to desertion The Ministry's troops were defecting You want to go then go If you don't then don't Say you will, say you won't You don't say? But if you leave, that's that When you're gone, you're gone And you don't come back No way There's no way If they fight like their fathers before them When the war ends they'll go home And when we sing then we'll sing 'til the morning 'The Lords of the Feather have flown' We're The Crickets of Jiminy