Summer is a-comin’ in—
So loudly sing, cuckoo!
Grows the seed and blows the
mead,
mead,
In spring the woods renew.
Sing, cuckoo!
Ewe will bleat and then the
lamb,
lamb,
And after calf, the cow will
low,
low,
And bullock stirs and bucks a-farting,
So, merry sing cuckoo!
Cuckoo, cuckoo,
Well sing you do, cuckoo!
Don’t stop it too, oh never
do!
do!
Sing, cuckoo, anew! Sing,
cuckoo!
cuckoo!
Sing, cuckoo! Sing, cuckoo,
anew!
anew!
Original
Summer is icumen in—
Lhude sing, cuccu!
Groweth sed and bloweth med
And springth the wude nu.
Sing, cuccu!
Awe bleteth after lomb,
Lhouth after calve cu,
Bulluc sterteth, bucke
verteth,
verteth,
Murie sing, cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu,
Wel singes thu, cuccu!
Ne swik thu naver nu!
Sing, cuccu, nu! Sing, cuccu!
Sing, cuccu! Sing, cuccu, nu!