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FROGGY WENT A-COURTING, No. 2 (THE FROG'S COURTSHIP) Sung by: Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Ash Recorded in Evening Shade, AR 6/30/59 Click here to listen to the original recording Mrs. Ash: "No, I don't know how it goes with the verse." Dr. Wolf: "Just go ahead.") Chorus: Sing song simmy catcha kimeo, Keemo kimo, keemo kee And he took Miss Mousey on his knee, And he said, "Miss Mouse, Will you marry me." Sing song simmy catcha kimeo. "Oh, not without Uncle Rat's consent." Sing song simmy catcha kimeo. "I wouldn't marry the president." (Chorus) (by Dr. Wolf: "That last was a fragment of another version that Mr. and Mrs. Ash know.") Also found in Randolph, Vol. I, #108, "The Frog's Courtship"; Brown, Vol. III, #120, "The Frog's Courtship"; Belden, p. 494, "The Frog's Courtship." |
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