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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
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!"

Text 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]
    • Go to the text page.

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

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