Lyrics
[verse]
Heed the buzz of the chickadee's song
in winter, a plaintive two-note call
draped the land in monotone
but in spring, this avian cosmic swelling
[refrain]
Groweth seed and bloweth meed
Loude sing atr'capillus
[verse]
Hee-hee-hee, hee-hee-hee
chipping in the buds of the white birch trees
Winter's torpor made for silent nights
Spring shakes her mane and summons the light
[refrain]
Groweth seed and bloweth meed
Loude sing atr'-capillus
[chorus]
Sumer is icumen in
Chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee
Groweth seed and bloweth meed
Fee-bee, fee-bee, fee-bee
[bridge]
Heeheeheeheehee - the chickie's sprightling cry
When morning breaks, we lift our face to cumulous-starred skies
Fee-bee fee-bee fee-bee bee -- his song's incessant charm
Groweth seed and bloeht Meed, as heath and hillside warm
[verse]
Heel-cha-shant-anan-ga
May the language of ages lift up these stanzas
Haalshin chúk-a'lin (in the dialect old)
fletches a beltane tale once told
[refrain]
Groweth seed and bloweth meed
Loude sing atr'-capillus
[verse]
Fee-bee bee, the suitors call
whistling sweethearts out from the understory
the woodpecker lays out its hollow knocks
Chick-a-dee-dee -- the hawk is nigh
and bloweth meed
Loude sing atr'-capillus
[verse]
Fee-bee bee, the suitors call
whistling sweethearts out from the understory
the woodpecker lays out its hollow knocks
Chick-a-dee-dee -- the hawk is nigh
[chorus]
Sumer is icumen in
Chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee
Groweth seed and bloweth meed
Fee-bee, fee-bee, fee-bee
(Groweth seed and bloweth meed
Loude sing atr'-capillus)
[Outro]
[End]
[verse]
Heel-cha-shant-anan-ga, may tongues of ages raise these stanzas
Haalshin chúk-a'lin (in the dialect old)
fletches a beltane tale we once told
[refrain]
Groweth seed and bloweth meed
Loude sing atr'-capillus
[verse]
Fee-bee bee, the suitors call
whistling sweethearts out from the understory
woodpecker lays out its hollow knocks
Chick-a-dee-dee -- the hawk is nigh
[chorus]
Sumer is icumen in
Chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee
Groweth seed and bloweth meed
Fee-bee, fee-bee, fee-bee
(Groweth seed and bloweth meed
Loude sing atr'-capillus)
[Outro]
[End]