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BONNY CUCKOO (Roud 24351)
This song first leapt out at me from the wonderful Shirley and Dolly Collins’ Anthems in Eden album. I love the brightness of the melody, the way it echoes the cuckoo’s call. This little song apparently brought Alan Lomax to tears, as he listened to Shirley, Dolly and their mother singing it in three-part harmony at home in Hastings in the 1950s.

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My bonny cuckoo, I tell thee true
That through the groves I'll rove with you.
I'll rove with you until the next spring,
And then my cuckoo shall sweetly sing.

The ash and the hazel shall mourning say,
O bonny cuckoo, don't go away!
Don't go away, but tarry here
And sing for us another year.

Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Pray tarry here,
And make the spring last all the year.

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from The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs, released May 1, 2022
Trad. Arr: Angeline Morrison
Vocals & mountain dulcimer: Angeline Morrison

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Angeline Morrison and The Ambassadors of Sorrow

"Bewitching and otherworldly... Morrison's voice is eerily confiding, strangely present, insistent even at its quietest" Folk Radio UK.

Believing in the beauty of sad songs, weaving folk, soul and beat sounds of the '60s into a tapestry of the human heart. Homespun sounds that reside in a nostalgic universe.

"Dark, unsettling folk that verges on the hymnal" BBC Introducing.
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