You Tell Me Aussie Magpies

You tell me Aussie magpies are gentle and happy birds they pipe a lovely song
But get to know them better and they will prove you wrong
I have seen them to kill smaller birds a blackbird and silver eye
And at nesting time they've been known to attack humans from the sky
The Aussie magpies sing at night from late Winter to Mid Spring
But song with them is known to be a territorial thing
And how pleasant for to hear them sing in the calm of the moonlight
The birds that sing all the year round and sometimes day and night
The Aussie magpies build their stick nests high on trees and for their food search on the ground
And everywhere in Australia in great numbers they abound
Perhaps more of them Down Under even than the Aussie pale eyed crow
The magpies are familiar as the birds everyone know
Their flute like songs quite beautiful melodious and clear
But how can you say they are gentle if smaller birds of them live in fear.