Something like this, I think; so far as I can remember after forty years or thereabouts.

X:1
T:From out the Battered Elm Tree
S:Scout camp, southern England, mid 1960s
Z:from memory
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
M:4/4
K:C
G2|c3 c e2 e2|c4 G2 e2|d3 c d2 e2|c6
w:From out the bat-tered elm tree, the ow-l's cry we hear;
G2|c3 c e2 e2|c4 G2 e2|d3 c d2 e2|c6
w:And from the dis-tant for-est, the cuck-oo an-swers clear:
g2|e6 g2|e6 g2|f3 e f2 g2|e6
w:Cuck-oo, cuck-oo, cuck-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo,
g2|e6 g2|e6 g2|f3 e f2 d2|c6|]
w:Cuck-oo, cuck-oo, cuck-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.


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