Re: Cuckoo changing its tune?


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Posted by Robert Hill on November 16, 2007 at 17:54:06 from 195.92.168.164 user eclrh.

In Reply to: Re: Cuckoo changing its tune? posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on November 16, 2007 at 10:24:43:

The version I learned as a child was

In April, come she will
In May, she sings all day
In June, she changes her tune
In July, she's ready to fly
In August, go she must.

There is a hauntingly beautiful Simon and Garfunkel song 'April, come she will' in which this old rhyme is adapted to refer to a girlfriend of the singer. I have it on a 40-year-old 7-inch 45rpm vinyl EP along with Mrs Robinson, The Sound of Silence and Scarborough Fair.

I think this song occurs in the soundtrack of the film The Graduate. The other three songs listed certainly do.

April, come she will, when streams are ripe and swelled with rain;
May, she will stay, resting in my arms again;
June, she'll change her tune, in restless walk she'll prowl the night;
July, she will fly, and give no warning to her flight;
August, die she must, the autumn winds blow chilly and cold;
September, I'll remember, a love once new has now grown old.



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