The word "croon" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone singing a song in a soft, gentle way. For example: "She stood in the center of the room and began to croon a familiar love song."
Largely that's as a result of vocalist Harry Burgess, whose vocal lines veer from languid tenor croon to something resembling a wasp bobbing about on a string, though he's matched step-for-step by skittering, spindly guitar lines and a restless rhythm section.
This is due no doubt in part to the hoggishness of moneyed men who would prefer to croon with crotches aflame than impart an additional farthing to the fisc, as Mr King suggests.
He therefore evokes a time when Canada and America signed two regional trade pacts and when the Canadian prime minister was proud to croon "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" with Ronald Reagan.
W.H. Auden wrote:I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street.Sweet-and-sour salmon now regularly croon in sub-Saharan streets.
Birds and amphibians have long been known to croon in the presence of a potential mate, but among mammals only humans, whales and bats were thought to serenade a possible partner.
As a result, he survived to croon his love songs into elegant old age.Throwing off his handlers took time and guile.
Instead of prayer, they got a mixture of storytelling, humour and the chance to croon along to some catchy live music.
They also scorned the idea of building a casino near Branson, where pastel-suited lounge lizards go to croon when they grow too old for Vegas.
Mr Bo himself has taken the stage with fellow officials to croon a few numbers, and has issued a list of 27 favourites (including "I Am a Soldier", from the early days of Communist rule, and "China, China, the Bright Red Sun Will Never Set", from 1977, the year after Mao's death).
More universal are her themes of not fitting in that click perfectly with her mostly-young audience, heard in lyrics from "The Outsider" that croon: "Feeling like a loser/Feeling like a bum/Sitting on the outside observing the fun".
His voice is the performance here; that achingly beautiful androgynous croon.
