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Cuckoo, The
Found in Cuckoo_The_1.abc
from the John Chambers abc collection
X: 1 T:Cuckoo, The S:Digital Tradition, cukoo4 N:From Traveller's Songs, MacColl & Seeger N:Collected from Caroline Hughes B:From Travellers' Songs, MacColl & Seeger Z:dt:cukoo4 M:3/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=100 W:O, it's night after night, love, I do lay on my bed, W:With the feathery pillows all under my head; W:Neither sleeping nor waking, no nor worse (rest?) can I find, W:But the thought of that young man, he still troubles my mind. W: W:Now, I will rise then and meet him as the evening draws nigh; W:I will meet him in the evening, as the evening draws nigh ; W:And if you think you love a iittle girl, your mind for to ease, W:O, can't you love the old one, till the young one came on (can please?) W: W:It's like the flowers all in your garden when the beauty's all gone W:Can't you see what I'm come to by a-loving that one? W:Now, the grave he will rot you, he will rot you all away, W:Not one young man out of twenty can a young maiden trust. W: W:Now, I'll take my week's wages, to the alehouse I'II go, W:O, and there I'll set drinking till my money's all gone; W:Here's my wife and little family at home, starving too, W:And me in this alehouse, a-spending all that I earn. W: W:Now, the cuckoo, she's called a merry bird, for she sings as she flies, W:O, she brings us good tidings and she tells we no lies; W:She sucks all small birds' eggs for to keep her voice clear, W:And every time she hollers "cuckoo!" , don't the summer draw nigh? K:C GG |F-E C2 E-F|c2 G2 FD|B,2 C2 D2|C6|z4 EF|\ G2 B2 G2|c2 G2 C2|F2 G2 c2|G6|z4 EF| G2 B2 G2|c2 G2 (3C-DE|F2 G2 c-B|G6|z4 GG|\ F-E C2 E-F|c2 G-F D-C|B,2 C2 D2|C6|z4||
Alternative sources for this tune:
- www.atrilcoral.com/Partituras_ABC/c.zip/c/1244
- trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/atrilcoral.com/c/1244
- trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/home.quicknet.nl/england/1366
- trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/konzertina.org/Cuckoo_The/0000
- trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/melnets_big_abc_file/02904
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