This song, complete with recitation, appears in Pete's book "The Bells of Rhymney and Other Songs and Stories from the Singing of Pete Seeger" under the title "The Foolish Frog".

We learned it from this book and have been telling it for nearly thirty years, first to our children, then to hundreds of thousands of kids in schools. It's dynamite with kids up to about third grade (J. Offer are you listening?)

Because we misinterpreted what Pete wrote in the book, our version takes about thirteen minutes. It wasn't until about twenty years of telling this story that we heard Pete do it on a recording and realized our mistake. Too late to change, we guess.

Bev and Jerry