Nursery Rhyme. Clxxiii. Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD BACD ECEEC FCFFC ACAAC GCGHC HCHIC GCGIC JCJKC KCKJCDThe music to the following song with different words is given in 'Melismata ' to Lond See also the 'Pills to Purge Melancholy ' vol i p The well known song 'A frog he would a wooing go ' appears to have been borrowed from this See Dauney's 'Ancient Scottish Melodies ' p The story is of old date and in there was licensed 'A most strange weddinge of the frogge and the mouse ' as appears from the books of the Stationers' Company quoted in Warton's Hist Engl Poet ed vol iii p | A |
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There was a frog liv'd in a well | B |
Kitty alone Kitty alone | C |
There was a frog liv'd in a well | B |
Kitty alone and I | D |
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There was a frog liv'd in a well | B |
And a farce mouse in a mill merry | A |
Cock me cary Kitty alone | C |
Kitty alone and I | D |
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This frog he would a wooing ride | E |
Kitty alone Kitty alone | C |
This frog he would a wooing ride | E |
And on a snail he got astride | E |
Cock me cary Kitty alone | C |
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He rode till he came to my Lady Mouse hall | F |
Kitty alone Kitty alone | C |
He rode till he came to my Lady Mouse hall | F |
And there he did both knock and call | F |
Cock me cary Kitty alone | C |
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Quoth he Miss Mouse I'm come to thee | A |
Kitty alone Kitty alone | C |
Quoth he Miss Mouse I'm come to thee | A |
To see if thou canst fancy me | A |
Cock me cary Kitty alone | C |
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Quoth she answer I'll give you none | G |
Kitty alone Kitty alone | C |
Quoth she answer I'll give you none | G |
Until my uncle Rat come home | H |
Cock me cary Kitty alone | C |
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And when her uncle Rat came home | H |
Kitty alone Kitty alone | C |
And when her uncle Rat came home | H |
Who's been here since I've been gone | I |
Cock me cary Kitty alone | C |
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Sir there's been a worthy gentleman | G |
Kitty alone Kitty alone | C |
Sir there's been a worthy gentleman | G |
That's been here since you've been gone | I |
Cock me cary Kitty alone | C |
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The frog he came whistling through the brook | J |
Kitty alone Kitty alone | C |
The frog he came whistling through the brook | J |
And there he met with a dainty duck | K |
Cock me cary Kitty alone | C |
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This duck she swallow'd him up with a pluck | K |
Kitty alone Kitty alone | C |
This duck she swallow'd him up with a pluck | K |
So there's an end of my history book | J |
Cock me cary Kitty alone | C |
Kitty alone and I | D |
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