The song The Magpie is performed by Donovan in the album named A Gift from a Flower to a Garden in the year 2000 .
The magpie is a most illustrious bird
dwells in a diamond tree
one brings sorrow and one brings joy
sorrow and joy for me
The magpie is a most royal bird
black and blue as night
i would that I had feathers three
black and blue and white
I saw the gentle magpie bird
in dusky yester-eve
one brought sorrow and one brought joy
and sooner than soon did leave
Donovan - A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
- Mad John's Escape
- Skip-A-Long Sam
- Sun
- There Was A Time
- Little Boy In Corduroy
- Under The Greenwood Tree
- The Land Of Doesn't Have To Be
- Someone Singing
- Song Of The Naturalist's Wife
- The Enchanted Gyspy
- Voyage Into The Golden Screen
- Isle Of Islay
- The Mandolin Man And His Secret
- Lay Of The Last Tinker
- Widow With Shawl (A Portrait)
- The Lullaby Of Spring
- The Magpie
- Starfish-On-The-Toast
- Epistle to Derroll