Nursery Rhyme. Clxxiii. Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD BACD ECEEC FCFFC ACAAC GCGHC HCHIC GCGIC JCJKC KCKJCD| The 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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