# Spring, the Sweet Spring

- Music: Frederick Delius (died 1934)
- Words: Thomas Nashe (died 1601)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6230260

## 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!  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).