I have heard three separate cuckoos this year (reminded above) but alas as we all I haven't been anywhere to sing about them. From the singing of Shirley Collins and my memory My bonny Cuckoo I'll tell you true That through the groves I'll rove with you I'll rove with you untill the next spring And then my Cuckoo shall sweetly sing The Ash and the Hazel do mourning say, 'O Bonny Cuckoo don't go away Don't go away but tarry here And sing for us throughout the year' Cuckoo, Cuckoo pray tarry here And make the Spring last all the year.
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