#236 - Cuckoo Song

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• 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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• Incipit: 55333456221724654323553345627265671
• 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!
  
  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