Spring, the Sweet Spring
Music: Frederick Delius (1862–1934) · Words: Thomas Nashe (1567–1601)
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant
king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance
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The words
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant
king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance
in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty
birds do sing,
Cuckoo, jug- jug, puwe, towittawoo!
Cuckoo, jugjug, puwe, towittawoo!
The palm and may make country houses gay,
Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all
day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay,
Cuckoo, jugjug, pu- we, towittawoo!
The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our
feet, Young lovers meet, old wives asunning
sit, In every street these tunes our ears do
greet _ Cuckoo, jugjug, pu- we,
towittawoo! Spring, the sweet Spring!
About this song
- Music
- Frederick Delius (1862–1934) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1919, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 1:23
- Its source files it as
- 4 Old English Lyrics
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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