Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

300 traditional songs, inc sheet music with full piano accompaniment & lyrics.

	434	OUli FAMILIAR SONGS.
	A FROG HE WOULD A WOOING GO.
	"The Froggie came to the mill door" was one of the songs in Wedderburn's 'Com-playnt of Scotland/ 1548. On November 21,1580, a license was granted to E. White, of a " ballad of a most strange wedding of the froggie and the mousie."
	They soon arrived at the mouse's hall, Heigho, etc. They gave a loud tap, and they gave a loud call! With a rowly powly, etc. Pray, Mrs. Mouse, are you within, Heigho, etc. Yes, kind sirs, I'm sitting to spin, With a rowly powly, etc. ■Come, Mrs. Mouse, now give us some beer, Heigho, etc. That froggy and I may have some cheer, With a rowly powly, etc. Pray Mr. Frog will you give us a song, Heigho, etc. Let the subject be something that's not very long, With a rowly powly, etc. Indeed, Mrs. Mouse, replied the frog, Heigho, etc. A cold has made me as hoarse as a hog, With a rowly powly, etc. Since you have caught cold, Mr. Frog, mousy said. Heigho, etc.		I'll sing you a song that I have just made, With a rowly powly, etc. As they were in glee and a merry making, Heigho, etc. A cat and her kittens came tumbling in, With a rowly powly, etc. The cat she seized the rat by the crown, Heigho, etc. The kittens they pull'd the little mouse down, With a rowly powly, etc. This put Mr. Frog in a terrible fright, Heigho, etc. He took up his hat and he wished them good night, With a rowly powly, etc. As froggy was crossing it over a brook, Heigho, etc. A lily white duck came and gobbled him up, With a rowly powly, etc. So here is an end of one, two and three, Heigho, etc. The rat, the mouse and little Froggy, With a rowly powly, etc.