The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10834 Message #4150840
Posted By: leeneia
23-Aug-22 - 02:28 PM
Thread Name: Origins: I Bought Me a Cat / Fiddle-i-Fee
Subject: RE: Origins: I Bought Me a Cat / Fiddle-i-Fee
It doesn't seem possible that anything more could be said about this simple song, but I'm going to add that I learned this song in school, and we sang:
I had a rooster and the rooster pleased me. I cherished my rooster 'neath the green bay tree. My little rooster sang cock-a-doo-doo etc
The animals' cries built up, as usual, but the final line was a cock-a-doodle-doo that went up high and came down low to end each verse with a flourish.
I never cared for the song, but it has stuck in my brain for 55 years.