The Cuckoo
Music: Amy Elsie Horrocks (1867–1920) · Words: May Byron (1861–1936)
The Cuckoo is the clown of Spring,
Queen Summer’s jester jolly; He roams the
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The words
The Cuckoo is the clown of Spring,
Queen Summer’s jester jolly; He roams the
world on easy wing, A flying, feathered
folly! He hastes at will, he halts at will,
No ties of home can bind him; But vagrant over
holt and hill, He leaves his name behind him,
But vagrant over holt and hill,
He leaves his name behind him; Cuckoo!
Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
And Cuckoo! Cuckoo! ev’rywhere,
And echo answers, Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
Cuckoo! Cuckoo! ev’rywhere, And echo
answers Cuckoo!
O Cuckoo, still our ears rejoice,
You blithe and careless rover! For ah!
when silence holds your voice, We know the
summer’s over. Upon the merry breezes ride,
A tuneful gypsy fellow, Till ev’ry rose is
open wide, And ev’ry wheatfield’s yellow!
Till ev’ry rose is open wide, And ev’ry
wheatfield’s yellow! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! And Cuckoo!
Cuckoo! ev’rywhere, And echo answers,
Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
ev’rywhere, And echo answers,
Cuckoo!
Cuckoo!
The Cuckoo is the clown of Spring,
Queen Summer’s jester jolly; He roams the
world on easy wing, A flying, feathered
folly! He hastes at will, he halts at will,
No ties of home can bind him; But vagrant over
holt and hill, He leaves his name behind him,
But vagrant over holt and hill,
He leaves his name behind him;
’tis here– ’tis there, on earth, on earth,
in air, And Cuckoo! Cuckoo! ev’rywhere,
And echo answers, Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
Cuckoo! Cuckoo! ev’rywhere, And echo
answers Cuckoo!
O Cuckoo, still our ears rejoice,
You blithe and careless rover! For ah!
when silence holds your voice, We know the
summer’s over. Upon the merry breezes ride,
A tuneful gypsy fellow, Till ev’ry rose is
open wide, And ev’ry wheatfield’s yellow!
Till ev’ry rose is open wide, And ev’ry
wheatfield’s yellow!
now here– now there, on earth, on earth,
in air, And Cuckoo! Cuckoo! ev’rywhere,
And echo answers, Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
Cuckoo! Cuckoo! ev’ry where, And echo
answers, Cuckoo!
Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
About this song
- Music
- Amy Elsie Horrocks (1867–1920) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- May Byron (1861–1936) (dates as IMSLP states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1905, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 1:05
- Parts
- Voice 1, Voice 2
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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- France, Mexico, Egypt, Argentina, Chile, Bangladesh, Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the member states of the Bangui Agreement (OAPI), Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea, and wherever the site has not read the law
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