Hi Everyone, Griff shared information with me about this popular song and I wanted to share it with you.
"The Cuckoo" is an Old English Ballad which laments the trouble women have trusting their lovers. I suspect that it was sung mostly by women at Fairs and house-gatherings, or even on the back porch. The Cuckoo bird was a herald of spring. Spring is the season of love etc. Besides acapella, the song might have been played on the piano or the lute or the harp, or combinations thereof.
Clarence, in his…
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