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The Cuckoo (song)

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34: 247:(Cuculus canorus) was until recent times a common visitor to the English countryside in spring and early summer, and its distinctive call was considered the first sign of spring. It is a nest parasite, and the female really does eat an egg of the host species when she lays her own egg in the nest. It is an important bird in folklore. 80:. The song is known by many names, including "The Coo-Coo", "The Coo-Coo Bird", "The Cuckoo Bird", "The Cuckoo Is a Pretty Bird", "The Evening Meeting", "The Unconstant Lover", "Bunclody" and "Going to Georgia". In the United States, the song is sometimes syncretized with the other traditional folk song " 135:
A young woman (usually - sometimes a young man) complains of the inconstancy of young men (or women) and the pain of losing in love. The song often consists mainly of "floating" verses (verses found in more than one song expressing common experiences and emotions), and apart from the constant cuckoo
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The cuckoo has traditionally been associated with sexual incontinence and infidelity. An old name for the cuckoo was "cuckold's chorister", and old broadsides played on the idea that the cuckoo's call was a reproach to husbands whose wives were unfaithful:
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was published between 1780 and 1812 CE, the latest before 1845. The broadside texts are similar, of five verses starting with a "Come all ye" warning about courting sailors and with the cuckoo appearing in the second verse.
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lists about 149 collected or recorded versions performed by traditional singers - 49 from England, 4 from Scotland, 2 from Ireland, 4 from Canada and 88 from the USA.
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The song has been covered by many musicians in several different styles. In North America, an early notable recorded version was performed in 1929 by
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verse, usually sung at the beginning, there is no fixed order, though sometimes a verse sounds as if it is going to be the start of a story:
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by London and provincial printers, but does not seem to have been common. Broadsides are not precisely dated, but the earliest in the
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in 1942, and he claimed to have learned it from a man named John Greer in the early 1910s. He also recorded
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The Cuckowes Comendation: / Or, the Cuckolds Credit: Being a merry Maying Song in Praise of the Cuckow.
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An Irish song, this uses a similar tune and starts with verses extolling the beauty of
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The song ends in a sad verse about emigration. There is a recording of this song by
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Max Hunter recorded Mrs Norma Kisner of Springdale Arkansas, singing a fragment of
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Goldsmith, Thomas (6 February 2005). "The beauty and mystery of ballads".
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Hudson, Arthur Palmer (June 1926). "Ballads and Songs from Mississippi".
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Recorded and released in 1929 and included in this compilation album
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Max Hunter recorded Olivia Hauser of Fayetteville, Arkansas, singing
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Usually, but not always, the song begins with a verse about the
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Singing the Traditional Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family
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recorded Willie Mathieson from Ellon, Aberdeenshire, singing
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While another in his forge at home may steale a private heat.
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Folk songs with shared motifs and floating verses include:
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Or a more symbolic warning, here in a Mississippi version:
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Notable artists who have recorded "The Cuckoo" include:
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For the top it will wither, and the roots they will die,
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They will kiss you and court you, poor girls to deceive,
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In poynting of plow harnesse, he labours till he sweat,
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The smith that on his anvill the iron hard doth ding:
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At least one collected version was published in the
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He cannot heare the cuckoo though he loud doth sing
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He sucks the sweet flowers to make his voice clear,
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Clarence Ashley

Broadside
Roud
English
folk song
United States
Canada
Scotland
Ireland
Jack of Diamonds
The Raleigh News & Observer
E.L. Doctorow
The March
cuckoo
Bunclody
Co. Wexford
Luke Kelly
The Dubliners
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Bodleian Ballad Collection
Roud Folk Song Index
Alan Lomax
Hobart Smith
Saltville, Virginia
Jean Ritchie
Hamish Henderson
Kelly Harrell
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