#7. The English lyrics with notes.

THE LOVER'S CuCKOO (Germany; Eng. version by W.S.)
--The melody is early nineteenth century; the words, around 1835.

1. Cuckoo, cuckoo, sings thru the trees.
Cuckoo, cuckoo, sings thru the trees.
Horses are prancing, lovers are dancing.
Cuckoo, cuckoo, give my heart ease.

2. Cuckoo, cuckoo, winter is past.
Cuckoo, cuckoo, winter is past.
Farmers all plowing, lovers all vowing,
Cuckoo, cuckoo, spring's here at last.

3. Cuckoo, cuckoo, tell her it's spring.
Cuckoo, cuckoo, tell her it's spring.
My heart is burning; for love I'm yearning.
Cuckoo, cuckoo, I, too, would sing.

SOURCE: Norman Luboff & Win Stracke, Songs of Man (Prentice-Hall/Walton, 1965, pp. 142-143).

~Masato