The Cuckoo (chrom)

by English Folk Song

Type:: Chromatic
Key:: G
Posted by:: WaltP

THE CUCKOO chrom
English folk song
Key: Em
Time: 3/4

 6   7   6  7  7 -4  -5  -5
The cuck-oo is a fun-ny bird
-4   -3   -4 -5    6
She sings as she flies
  6      7    6   7   -4 -5 -5
She’ll bring you glad tid-ings
 -4     -3  -4  -5  6
She’ll tell you no lies
 6   6    7    7   7   7   -9  -8
She sips from the pret-ty flow-ers
-7  7   -6*  -5     6
To make her voice clear
 6    6     7  6   7    -4  -5
And she’ll nev-er sing cuck-oo
 -5  -4    -3   -4 -5   6
Till the spring of the year