# The Cuckoo

- Music: Amy Elsie Horrocks (died 1920)
- Words: May Byron (died 1936)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6636042

## 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!  

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).