CUCKOO
Russian Folk songs with English translations p 39 #33

Through the wood as dusk was fal-ling,
Heard a maid the cuck-oo cal-ling,
O'er and o'er as they all do,
Cuck-oo, cuck-oo, cuck-oo
O'er and o'er as they all do
Cuck-oo, cuck-oo, cuck-oo*

Tell me, prophet, oft I've wondered,
Shall I live to be a hundred?
And the cuckoo tells her true,
Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo

Tell me, when will Wnja take me
to the church, his bride to make me?
That can cuckoo answer too,
Cuck-oo, cuck-oo, cuck-oo