#236 - Cuckoo Song

Composer:
- Joseph Kline Emmet
  - #108 - Sweet Violets
  - #236 - Cuckoo Song
  (1840-1891), 1879
- from the play Fritz In Ireland
Also known as:
- Emmett's Cuckoo Song
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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!

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.

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]

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.
- Joseph Kline Emmet
  - #108 - Sweet Violets
  - #236 - Cuckoo Song
  (1840-1891), 1879