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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 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: A-walking, a-talking, a-walking was I,
"Sumer is icumen in" is the incipit of a medieval English round or rota of the mid-13th century; it is also known variously as the Summer Canon and the Cuckoo Song. The line translates approximately to "Summer has come" or "Summer has arrived". [2] The song is written in the Wessex dialect of Middle English.
Der Kuckuck und der Esel (The cuckoo and the donkey) is a well known old German children's song from the early 19th century. Its text was written by Hoffmann von Fallersleben in 1835, the melody had already been composed by Carl Friedrich Zelter in 1810. The song is about a singing contest between a cuckoo and a donkey.
The Skye Boat Song" (Roud 3772) is a late 19th-century Scottish song adaptation of a Gaelic song composed c.1782 by William Ross, entitled Cuachag nan Craobh ("Cuckoo of the Tree"). [1] In the original song, the composer laments to a cuckoo that his unrequited love , Lady Marion Ross, is rejecting him.
Common cuckoo song, Kaluga region, Russia. The duo's "cuckoo" theme, entitled "Dance of The Cuckoos", was composed by Roach musical director Marvin Hatley as the on-the-hour chime for the Roach studio radio station, then known as KFVD. [2] Laurel heard the tune on the station, and asked Hatley to use it as the Laurel and Hardy theme song.
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