Comments on: The Cuckoo – Song and Rhyme http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/the-cuckoo/ Language, Culture and Kids Songs! Fri, 24 May 2013 19:24:22 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lisa http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/the-cuckoo/comment-page-1/#comment-1459826 Lisa Fri, 18 May 2012 17:56:30 +0000 http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/the-cuckoo/#comment-1459826 Hi Tinker Jack, Nice to hear from you! A cuckold in English is someone who's wife is cheating on them... it comes from the cuckoo bird that tricks other birds into caring for its eggs. So that's the reference Shakespeare is making. Thanks for pointing out <em>Simsaladim, Bamba, saladuu, saladiim</em>. For anyone who's not familiar with it, it's the <a href="Auf einem Baum ein Kuckuck saß A Cuckoo Sat on a Tree" rel="nofollow">German song Auf einem Baum ein Kuckuck saß</a> (A Cuckoo Sat on a Tree). In that song the cuckoo is killed but it comes back to life the following year and everybody's happy! It's always good to end on a cheerful note! Hi Tinker Jack,

Nice to hear from you!

A cuckold in English is someone who’s wife is cheating on them… it comes from the cuckoo bird that tricks other birds into caring for its eggs. So that’s the reference Shakespeare is making.

Thanks for pointing out Simsaladim, Bamba, saladuu, saladiim. For anyone who’s not familiar with it, it’s the German song Auf einem Baum ein Kuckuck saß (A Cuckoo Sat on a Tree). In that song the cuckoo is killed but it comes back to life the following year and everybody’s happy! It’s always good to end on a cheerful note!

]]> By: Tinker Jack http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/the-cuckoo/comment-page-1/#comment-1459334 Tinker Jack Fri, 18 May 2012 08:38:21 +0000 http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/the-cuckoo/#comment-1459334 Hi Lisa, I bought a nursery rhyme CD a couple of years ago and this verse was also recited in the Andrew Lang version. I did not know it is so sad. We learned it together and were thinking about happiness. Have you heard that beautiful final song from Shakespeare Love’s Labour’s Lost, whose refrain goes like this: The cuckoo, then, on every tree, / Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo, / Cuckoo, Cuckoo: O, word of fear, / Unpleasing to a married ear!” OK. Let’s be optimistic…Simsaladim, Bamba, saladuu, saladiim. Hi Lisa,
I bought a nursery rhyme CD a couple of years ago and this verse was also recited in the Andrew Lang version. I did not know it is so sad. We learned it together and were thinking about happiness.

Have you heard that beautiful final song from Shakespeare Love’s Labour’s Lost, whose refrain goes like this:
The cuckoo, then, on every tree, / Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo, / Cuckoo, Cuckoo: O, word of fear, / Unpleasing to a married ear!”
OK. Let’s be optimistic…Simsaladim, Bamba, saladuu, saladiim.

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