Editing Cockaigne (section)

=== Music ===
* ''[[Cockaigne (In London Town)]]'' is a concert overture composed by [[Edward Elgar]] in 1901.
* The folk song "[[The Big Rock Candy Mountains]]", first recorded by [[Harry McClintock]] in 1928, depicts a [[hobo]]'s idea of paradise along the lines of Cockaigne, with "cigarette trees" and hens that lay soft-boiled eggs.
* The album ''[[Land of Cockayne (album)|Land of Cockayne]]'' (1981) by [[Soft Machine]].
* [[Edenbridge (band)|Edenbridge]]'s song ''The Most Beautiful Place'' mentions "You are what I call Cockaign".
* [[Jacques Brel]]'s song [[Le Plat Pays]] mentions "Et de noirs clochers comme mâts de cocagne" (and black steeples like cockaigne poles)
* [[Carl Orff]]’s choral work ''[[Carmina Burana]]'', a musical setting of anonymous mediæval ribald verse in [[Latin]] and [[Middle Low German]], includes the song ''Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis'' or "I am the abbot of Cockaigne".
* A song "The Land of Cockaigne" can be found on the 2017 album ''A Coat Worth Wearing'' by the Scots-born Sheffield-based musician [[Neil McSweeney]].