Tell-tale Tit!

‘A little bird told me …’

On a tree by a river a little tom-tit
looked down on the river below,
he watched an eccentric old fisherman sit –
a beard on his chin-again,
he fished with a pin-again,
and all that he caught he would  quickly throw in-again
… for his name was, of course, Michael Finnegan;
        
the bird fluttered up, with a twittering flit,
to view the vast countryside sweep –
noticed Little Bo-peep had just lost all her sheep,
but saw where they’d drifted away to;
so it flew past her ear,
and tweeted how near,
then rose again high,
to be able to spy
from a regular circling fly-by;

and quickly observed the six wandering feet
of those three little maids from school –
truants larking and giggling, just playing the fool:
perceiving their danger,
this far-seeing ranger,
flew fast to report to their teacher.

So it’s good to be ‘seen’,
and it’s not always ‘mean’
to be ‘told-on’  with love by whoever,
but take care what you do,
what you say, where you go,
for secrets may come out whenever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p16JPZWo_Jk (‘On a tree by a river a little tom-tit’ from the ‘Mikado’, Gilbert and Sullivan)
http://musicbus.com/resources/song-words/song-words-l/little-bo-peep/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1qlOaxdy9s (for one version of Michael Finnegan though I don’t think it’s got the verse about him fishing, there are lots of varieties
eg http://www.theteachersguide.com/kidsongs/michaelfinnegan.htm )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXWkIZUPmDY (from the ‘Mikado’, Gilbert and Sullivan)

[IP: choose the titles of at least three songs and incorporate them in a piece of poetry or prose - any songs you like. It might be helpful if you could add the links to the songs at the end of the text.]