Lyrics
(Folk song)
Where art thou, where art thou, where art thou flying
Over the buttercup hill?
Say art thou, say art thou, say art thou hieing
Swift to the road or the rill?
Cuckoo! cuckoo! Cuckoo! cuckoo!
Over the buttercup hill.
Oh my bird, oh my bird from my sight faded,
Now can I see thee no more;
Gone like the light which a tempest has shaded,
Lost like a wave on the shore.
Cuckoo! cuckoo! Cuckoo! cuckoo! Now I can see thee no more.
Where art thou once again calling and dancing
Like a wild fay in thy flight!
Out of the gloom of the cedar boughs
Glancing With a clear note of delight.
Cuckoo! cuckoo! Cuckoo! cuckoo!
With a clear note of delight.
See also
- Subjects: cuckoo / birds
- Form: ABA
- Harmony: major & minor / one chord
- Rhythm:Â
- Scale: melodic minor (2nd half)
- Scale: major
- Source: The Child’s Own Music Book, The Largest Collection of Mothers’ and Children’s Songs, Musical Games and Piano Music Ever Published, Covering Completely All Phases of Child Life, 1918
- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song