Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
The Birds
Language: English  after the Czech (Čeština)
Cuckoo! From out of a wood did a cuckoo fly, He came to a manger with joyful cry; He hopped, he curtsied, round he flew, And loud his jubilation grew! Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo! A pigeon flew over Galilee, He strutted and cooed and was full of glee, And showed with jeweled wings unfurled, His joy that Christ was in the world, Vrecroo, Vrecroo, Vrecroo. A dove settled down on Nazareth, And tenderly chanted with all his breath; "O you," he cooed, "so good and true, My beauty do I give to you Tsucroo!"
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Czech (Čeština) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John La Montaine (1920 - 2013), "The Birds", from Songs of the Nativity, no. 5 [ sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Sanna Mansikkaniemi
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 93