Summer is a‑coming in and the Cuckoo

Summer is a-coming in
Loudly sing cuckoo,
Groweth seed an bloweth mead
And spring'th the wood a-new.
Sing cuckoo, sing cuckoo.
Merry sing cuckoo
 
O the cuckoo she's a pretty bird
She singeth as she flies;
She bringeth good tidings,
She telleth no lies.
She suckeht white flowers
For to keep her voice clear;
And the more she singeth "Cuckoo"
The summer draweth near.
Ah..

Submitted by Lidy van Noordenburg

Authorship

• from Volkslieder (Folksongs) [an adaptation] [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

• a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist GER LAT
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Anonymous/Unidentified Artist, Benjamin Britten, Cyril Meir Scott. Go to the text.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "Summer is a-coming in and the Cuckoo", 1950 [women's chorus], from the cantata Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, no. 3a, (Summer), Oxford University Press [
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Settings in other languages or adaptations:

• Also set in English, original text by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , title unknown LAT by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist, Cyril Meir Scott, Benjamin Britten.
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• Also set in Latin, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , title unknown ENG by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist.
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• Also set in English, adapted by by Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) , title unknown LAT by Gary Bachlund.
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