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: : : "Tingle, Tingle, Tangle Toes
: : : She's a good fisherman
: : : Catches hens, puts'em inna pens
: : : Wier blier, limber lock
: : : Three geese inna flock
: : : One flew east, One flew west,
: : : One flew over the cuckoo's nest
: : : O-U-T spells out
: : : Goose swoops down and plucks you out.
: : Although this may have nothing to do with the meaning of the nursery rhyme, most European cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests and build no nests of their own. The baby cuckoo is raised by parents of a different species along with their own babies but usually grows more quickly than its non-cuckoo nest-mates and pushes them out to die.