Name: Hal an Tow/Sumer Is Icumen In
Duration: P00H02M55S
Description: Two songs with such convenient shared text asked to be combined. Hal an Tow is a version of the ~1590s Helston song I learned from the 2012 production of Henry IV Part I at Shakespeare's Globe. Sumer Is Icumen In is a Wessex Middle English round written down in the 1260s, speculated to be by W. de Wycombe.

Hal an Tow/Sumer Is Icumen In

from Old Songs for Summer by Rion Sanura

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Two songs with such convenient shared text asked to be combined. Hal an Tow is a version of the ~1590s Helston song I learned from the 2012 production of Henry IV Part I at Shakespeare's Globe. Sumer Is Icumen In is a Wessex Middle English round written down in the 1260s, speculated to be by W. de Wycombe.

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Take no scorn to wear the horn
It was the crest when you were born
Your father's father wore it
And your father wore it, too

Hal an tow
Jolly rumble-o!
We were up
Long before the day-o
To welcome in the Summer
To welcome in the May-o
For summer is a-coming in
And winter's gone away-o!

Robin Hood and Little John
Have both gone to the fair-o
And we will to the merry green wood
To hunt the buck and hare, o!

Hal an tow
Jolly rumble-o!
We were up
Long before the day-o
To welcome in the Summer
To welcome in the May-o
For summer is a-coming in
And winter's gone away-o!

Sumer is icumen in!
Lhude sing cuccu
Groweþ sed
and bloweþ med
and springþ þe wde nu
Sing cuccu!

Awe bleteþ after lomb
lhouþ after calue cu
Bulluc sterteþ
bucke uerteþ
murie sing cuccu

Cuccu cuccu
Wel singes þu cuccu
ne swik þu nauer nu

Sing cuccu nu, sing cuccu.

Modern English:
Summer has arrived!
Loudly sing, cuckoo!
The seed is growing
And the meadow is blooming,
And the wood is springing into leaf now,
Sing, cuckoo!

The ewe is bleating after the lamb,
The cow is lowing after the calf;
The bullock is jumping,
The buck is farting,
Sing merrily, cuckoo!

Cuckoo, cuckoo,
You sing well, cuckoo,
Never stop now.

Sing, cuckoo, now, sing, cuckoo!

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from Old Songs for Summer, released June 19, 2020

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