====== #236 - Cuckoo Song ======
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  *Composer:
    *++Joseph Kline Emmet|{{search>"Joseph Kline Emmet" @cobs}}++ (1840-1891), 1879
    *from the [[:groups:opera|play]] //Fritz In Ireland//
  *Also known as:
    *Emmett's Cuckoo Song
  *[[/data/media/midi/236.mid|MIDI]] | ++show|\\ {{http://www.rollerorgans.com/mid2roll.php?cob=236&.gif?}}++
  *[[:incipit]]: 55333456221724654323553345627265671
  *[[:incipit|Condensed Incipit]]: 53456217246543235345627265671
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
Oh, hear the cuckoo call!\\
Oh, hear him calling now!\\
Cuckoo! Cuckoo!\\
I hear you call, I hear you call,\\
Hear the cuckoo call,\\
Oh, hear how he's calling now!\\
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Oh sadly the cuckoo is calling now,\\
I hear him far up in the ruins so gray!\\
And softly the moonbeams are falling now,\\
O'er slumbering blossoms of May.\\
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//chorus: //\\
Soft lilies and the rose\\
Wave in the valleys green,\\
Sad spirits yearn for their lost love,\\
While beautiful shamrock grows.\\
Oh, sadly the cuckoo is calling now,\\
I hear him far up in the ruins so gray!\\
And softly th moonbeams are falling now,\\
O'er slumbering blossoms of May.\\
La la oo la ee oh, etc. [yodeling]\\
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The bluebirds do sing with a merry trill,\\
Their glad notes sound clear through the green woodland bow'rs;\\
But the cuckoo's call is so sad and still,\\
It comes in the twilight's lone hours.\\
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    *++Joseph Kline Emmet|{{search>"Joseph Kline Emmet" @cobs}}++ (1840-1891), 1879