My Bonny Cuckoo

DESCRIPTION: "My bonny cuckoo, I tell you true" that they will roam the groves together until spring, when the cuckoo will sing. The singer asks that the bird stay "and make the season last all year."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1960 (Tobitt-TheDittyBag), probably derived ultimately from Bunting's "Ancient Music of Ireland" (1840)
KEYWORDS: bird courting
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Tobitt-TheDittyBag, p.129, "My Bonny Cuckoo" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Tobitt-YoursForASong, p. 17, "My Bonny Cuckoo" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #24351
File: TobiMBC

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