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Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover

22 Feb 15 - 04:13 PM (#3688974)
Subject: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: GUEST,brooko

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


22 Feb 15 - 04:32 PM (#3688975)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: GUEST,#

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

Try that related thread.


23 Feb 15 - 01:39 PM (#3689179)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: GUEST,brooko

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


23 Feb 15 - 01:49 PM (#3689184)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: Brian Peters

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.


23 Feb 15 - 04:59 PM (#3689223)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: MartinRyan

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.


23 Feb 15 - 05:56 PM (#3689235)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: GUEST

are you in cookoo land by any chance


23 Feb 15 - 06:54 PM (#3689253)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: FreddyHeadey

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).


24 Feb 15 - 12:21 PM (#3689429)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: GUEST

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


24 Feb 15 - 02:52 PM (#3689501)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: Gurney

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.


26 Feb 15 - 03:13 PM (#3690042)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: cuckoo verse to wild rover
From: GUEST,Desi C

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