Retorne of the Chyckady

[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]