Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover

Subject: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: GUEST,brooko
Date: 22 Feb 15 - 04:13 PM

doe anybody know the verse about the cuckoo in the wild rover song

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: GUEST,#
Date: 22 Feb 15 - 04:32 PM

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7782

Try that related thread.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: GUEST,brooko
Date: 23 Feb 15 - 01:39 PM

no luck as yet, but I'll keep on trying

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: Brian Peters
Date: 23 Feb 15 - 01:49 PM

I looked at all the versions of Wild Rover that I could find - from England, Scotland, Australia, Canada and Ireland - in the course of researching a paper on the song that was published in the Folk Music Journal last year. I don't recall ever having seen a verse about a cuckoo and, having just checked through most of them, I still can't find it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: MartinRyan
Date: 23 Feb 15 - 04:59 PM

Not in any traditional version I can think of. Lots of modern versions/parodies - but I've never heard mention of a cuckoo there, either. More clues?

Regards.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Feb 15 - 05:56 PM

are you in cookoo land by any chance

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 23 Feb 15 - 06:54 PM

Letter to The Times

Sir, I would like to report the first Mudcat sight of brooko for 2015. This is about the same as earlier years even though last year he was exceptionally late(May 2014).
Oh, by the way, first use of the word cuckoo in a thread title too. (16th Feb last year).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 15 - 12:21 PM

Your so funny FreddyHeadey (not)A friend who has since passed away used to sing the verse about the cuckoo, but i cant remember it.hopefully i'll remember it one day

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: Gurney
Date: 24 Feb 15 - 02:52 PM

This traditional verse from a couple of other songs would fit, if you can't find the one you want.

The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she sings as she flies
She brings us good tidings, she tells us no lies
She sucks the small birds eggs to make her voice clear
And the more she sings cuckoo, the summer draws near.

No relationship to the Wild Rover that I can see, but it scans OK.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 26 Feb 15 - 03:13 PM

Well, I'm an Irish born trad Irish singer and unless someone added a verse, I've never heard of it, other songs with Cuckoo verses b ut not that one