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"April Come She Will" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their second studio album "Sounds of Silence". It originally appeared on the solo album "The Paul Simon Songbook". It is the B-Side to the hit single "Scarborough Fair/Canticle". It is included on "The Graduate" soundtrack album and was additionally released on the "Mrs. Robinson 'EP'" in 1968, together with three other songs from "The Graduate" film: "Mrs. Robinson", "Scarborough Fair/Canticle", and "The Sound of Silence".
The song was written in 1964 while Paul Simon was in England. Its lyrics use the changing nature of the seasons as a metaphor for a girl's changing moods. The inspiration for the song was a girl that Simon met and the nursery rhyme she used to recite, "Cuckoo". It is the shortest song on the album. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the song is composed in the key of G major with Paul Simon's vocal range spanning from D3 to D4.
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