The marriage of the frog and the mouse (Herbert Brewer)

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• (Posted 2023-09-27)  CPDL #75797:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-27).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 736 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The marriage of the frog and the mouse
Composer: Herbert Brewer
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Humorous song

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1906 Novello and Co.
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Humbledum, humbledum,
Tweedle, tweedle, twino.

It was the frog in the well,
And the merry mouse in the mill,
The frog would a-wooing ride,
Sword and buckler by his side,
When he upon his high horse set,
His boots they shone as black as jet,
When he came to the merry millpin,
“Lady Mouse, been you with in?”
Then came out that dusty mouse:
“I am Lady of this house:
Hast thou any mind of me?”
“I have e’en great mind of thee!”
“Who shall this marriage make?”
“Our lord, which is the rat.”
“What shall we have to our supper?”
“Three beans in a pound of butter?”
When supper they were at,
the frog, the mouse, and e’en the rat;
Then came in Gib, our cat,
And catched the mouse e’en by the back,
Then did they separate,
The frog leaped on the floor so flat,
Then came in Dick our drake,
And drew the frog e’en to the lake,
The rat ran up the wall,
A goodly company,
The Devil go with all!

From Thomas Ravenscroft’s Melismata (1611)