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Bruce O.	Lyr Req: Frog in the Well (20)	RE: Lyr? Frog in the well	02 Jan 00
"Froggy in the Well"; facsimile of oldest: SCA Minstrel website-Ravenscroft-Melismata-#21 "Tailor and Mouse" was originally tailor and louse. Old tradition had it that tailors were cowardly and couldn't fight anything bigger (7 tailors make a man. See also "Benjamin Bowmaneer" in DT) John Taylor capitalized on it with his ballad of the Tailor and the Louse, and it was revised a few times on other broadside ballads, and came down to us as a folksong. See ZN2168, ZN2449, and Zn2570 in the broadside ballad index on my website for the early versions. www.erols.com/olsonw

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