Common Sparrow
@CommonSparrow@mindly.social
Hair is gray, but not yet retired. Currently working two jobs - Love both of them. Native of New York by Ontario's shore, with Canadian childhood memories. Lifelong Democrat, moving ever further left as the years pass. Have a half-dozen double-stacked bookcases of secondhand books, and still keep my public library card busy. Honorary Gramma to a cute kiddo. Dog lover and recorder of audiobooks for LibriVox. #DailyHaikuPrompt #BookRecommendations #Books #Libraries #LibriVox #History #NoBots
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For this week's jukebox music theme of Birds, here is the oldest known song in the English language, "#Sumer is Icumin In", (Summer is a-Coming In), preserved in a manuscript from the 13th century. It is sung here by Simon Mayor & Hilary James.
"Summer is a-coming in
Loud sing cuckoo!
Groweth seed
and bloweth mead
and springeth the wood new,
Sing cuckoo!
Cuckoo, cuckoo,
Well singest thou cuckoo,
nor stop thou never now."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQLaLdRIF10
#JukeboxFridayNight #Birds
