Sumer is Icumen In
Written by trad., arr. by Thompson
Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing, cuccu! Groweth sed and bloweth med And springth the wude nu. Sing, cuccu!
Awe bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu Bulloc sterteth, bucke ferteth. Murie sing, cuccu! Cuccu, cuccu, Wel singes thu, cuccu. Ne swik thu naver nu!
Sing cuccu nu, sing cuccu! Sing cuccu nu, sing cuccu!
The oldest known round in the English language - it can be sung in six dovetailing parts. Written down by John Farnsette, a monk at Reading Abbey,
in the mid-13th century. His manuscript still viewable in the British
Museum.
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