Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
Like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If i, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If i, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.

Like a baby, stillborn,
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
He said to me, ``you must not ask for so much.''
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
She cried to me, ``hey, why not ask for more? ''

Oh like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.

• A Sailor's Life
• After Halloween
• Autopsy
• Ballad of Easy Rider
• Banks of The Nile
• Bird on a Wire
• Blow Away
• Blue Tattoo
• Blues Run The Game
• Bold Jack Donahue
• Book Song
• Box Full of Treasure
• Bring 'em Down
• Bruton Town
• By The Time It Gets Dark
• Cajun Woman
• Cold Feet
• Come All Ye
• Crazy Man Michael
• Dawn
• Dear Landlord
• Down Where The Drunkards Roll
• East Virginia
• Eastern Rain
• Eppy Moray
• Farewell, Farewell
• Forever Young
• Fotheringay
• Genesis Hall
• Geordie
• Georgia on My Mind
• Green Grow The Laurels
• Gypsy Davey
• Hearts
• Here in Silence
• I'll Keep It With Mine
• I'm Leaving
• If You Saw Thro' My Eyes
• In Memory
• Iron Lion
• It Ain't Me Babe
• Knockin' on Heavens Door
• Let It Go
• Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
• Lowlands of Holland
• Magic Lady
• Makes Me Think of You
• Man of Iron
• Matty Groves
• Million Dollar Bash
• Motherless Children
• Mr Lacey
• My Ramblin' Boy
• Never Ending
• Night-time Girl
• No Man's Land
• Nothing More
• Nottamun Town
• Now & Then
• On The Banks of The Condamine
• One More Chance
• Painted Ladies
• Peace in The End
• Percy's Song
• Pleasure Pain
• Polly on The Shore
• Possibly Parsons Green
• Reno, Nevada
• Restless
• Reynard The Fox
• Reynardine
• Rigs of The Time
• Ringing Down The Years
• Rising for The Moon
• Sir Patrick Spens
• Sloth
• Some Sweet Day
• Stranger to Himself
• Suzanne
• Take Away The Load
• Tale in Hard Time
• Tam Lin
• The Angels Took My Racehorse Away
• The Ballad of Ned Kelly
• The Battle of Evermore
• The Boatman
• The Deserter
• The Hexhamshire Lass
• The King & Queen of England
• The Leaves of Life
• The Plainsman
• The Pond & The Stream
• The Sea
• The Way I Feel
• Throwaway Street Puzzle
• Too Much of Nothing
• Twisted
• Two Weeks Last Summer
• What is True?
• White Dress
• Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
• Wild Mountain Thyme
• Winter Winds