Lyr Req: Froggie Went a-Courtin + Crawdad Song

Subject: Song Lyrics
From:
Date: 17 Oct 98 - 11:13 AM

Does anyone know the lyrics for the songs "Froggie Went A Courtin'" and The "Crawdad Song" If so could you share them via e-mail? Music and key would be appreciated too if available.... Thanks in [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From: Roger Himler
Date: 17 Oct 98 - 12:43 PM

Dear Underwoman(a guess):

Both of the songs for which you requested lyrics are in the Digital Tradition. This is a database of thousands of folk songs. By using the search device in the upper right hand corner of this page, you could find both quickly. The "Mr Frog Went a'Courtin'" has a tune for play back.

To simplify your life, you can find the two songs if you click here and here.

Enjoy the songs. Y'all come back and visit us real soon, ya hear?

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From:
Date: 17 Oct 98 - 05:12 PM

There are different versions of the Froggie song. The one I grew up with was A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go, which is the version with Hi Ho says Raleigh! in it, although I have no idea whether this refers to the unfortunate Sir Walter.

I also like the American version where Miss Mousie tells Froggie, "You ain't no frog, you're a horny toad.":)

Is the Crawdad song the one about "You get a line, and I'll get a pole?" If so, how do you fish for crawdads (ie, crayfish, a kind of tiny, tasteless fresh water lobster) with a line and pole? Up here folks use traps.

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From: Barbara
Date: 17 Oct 98 - 05:23 PM

We use a forked stick. You flip over a rock underwater and when the silt settles, sneak up behind it and capture it in the fork. Actually I use my fingers, the same as a stick. Trick is, if you get the fingers too far forward on the carapace, you are in pinching range. Ouch. Splash.
I think you can catch em with a line and a piece of bait,that they grab hold of, and flip them into a bucket if you're fast, I never had much luck doing it that way. But maybe that's what the song is about, really. An excuse.
There's also a lovely version of Froggy's Courting with a chorus:
"Here's to Cheshire, here's to cheese
Here's to the pears and the apple trees,
Here's to the lovely stawberries,
Ding, dang, dong go the wedding bells."

I don't see it in DT, but it's in Rise Up Singing.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From:
Date: 18 Oct 98 - 12:40 AM

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Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From: BSeed
Date: 18 Oct 98 - 01:39 AM

Barbara, Katie Kalleck was on KPFA (our local Pacifica--listener supported radio station) on a Sunday afternoon roots-music show, "A Pig in a Pen," chatting away between cuts from her then-new album. She and the host, whose name I should remember, started talking about fishing for crawdads. The host told about how he used to do it when he was a kid: catch, kill, and skin a rabbit, tie a rope to it and toss it out into the middle of the pond, and after a few minutes drag it in and shake a couple dozen crawdads off it, then toss it back in... --seed

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From: Snookums
Date: 18 Oct 98 - 02:25 AM

Believe it or not, I did catch a crawdad once with a pole and a worm- too bad I was trying for bullheads at the time.

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From:
Date: 18 Oct 98 - 09:55 PM

I suppose they will pinch at bait on a line. Crabs and lobsters will too, but it is a rather inefficient way of fishing for them.

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From:
Date: 19 Oct 98 - 05:37 PM

Crawdad Song is in the database, BTW.

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From: steve t
Date: 22 Oct 98 - 01:40 AM

I saw a French movie called "May Fools" in which the rich old man gets small crayfish from his local stream by letting them grab his skin. He ducks under, then after a while comes up with five or eight crayfish hanging off of his fingers. Ouch. Too unexpected to be fictional though.

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From:
Date: 22 Oct 98 - 04:40 AM

I don't see the version of the Froggie song I know in the database. Would some kind soul with a copy of Mother Goose post the lyrics? The tune is also different from most American versions, or at least the tune my mother sang was different. And Mom didn't sing about horny toads either.:)

It begins: A frog he would a-wooing go
Hi ho! Says Raleigh
Whether his mother would let him or no
With a rolly polly gammon and spinach
Hi ho! says Anthony Raleigh.

Subject: Hopelessly Midwestern by Mustard's Retreat
From:
Date: 22 Oct 98 - 06:02 PM

If anyone knows these lyricss, please EMail me. Thanks in advance

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From:
Date: 22 Oct 98 - 06:06 PM

I am trying to find a song with the name Bev or Beverly in it...if anyone knows of any...or even a poem or a verse with that name, please e-mail it to me at: [e-mail] would really appreciate it.

Thanks

Subject: RE: Song Lyrics
From: C.R.
Date: 22 Oct 98 - 11:58 PM

Tim and Barbara, You are right that a hook and line is a poor way to catch crawdads. You'd always snag one or two going after pan fish like sunfish, bluegill, and MUDCATS, but never enough to make a mess. Besides, those are the big ones, and they're not so good. If you want to catch crawdads, seining is the only way to go. Back couple hundred year ago when we were kids, my brother and I had 3 or 4 farm ponds we'd hit, and in 20 or 30 minutes we'd have all we could handle. We'd sell 200 dozen or so to the bait shops up and down the river and eat the rest. Now these were the little soft shell crawdads, and they're pretty good. They peel real easy, and you just pull that mud vein out of the tail-it comes right out. Doesn't take any time to clean a mess. Only eat the tail though, that's the meat of it. It's about the same as shrimp. I never knew them to be in moving water, only in still, but They might be in creeks and rivers too.