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-- while all the time two other voices of lower pitch sing a monotonous refrain, 'Sing cuccu nu, Sing cuccu,' which they repeat _ad infinitum_ till the four who sing the Round are tired.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
milosrdenstvi commented on the word cuccu
A very old English round. Mostly intelligible to modern ears. And yes, verteth is what you think it is.
Sumer is icumen in
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweth sed and bloweth med
And springth the wode nu!
Sing cuccu!
Awe bleteth after lomb,
Lhouthe after calve cu.
Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth,
Murie sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel singes the cuccu,
Ne swik thu naver nu.
Sing cuccu nu, sing cuccu!
September 14, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word cuccu
Also, a Sardinian family name.
September 14, 2009
bilby commented on the word cuccu
That song is what Christopher Lee and his inbred villagers joyously sing in the last scene of The Wicker Man (superb 1973 version, not duff remake).
September 14, 2009