Way back when this thread was fresh, I posted the text for a round "What a Queer Bird". I've finally gotten around to making an ABC of the tune, as well as of a few other rounds I had laying around on strips of sheet music. First the bare texts, then an ABC file with all of them:


What a queer bird

What a queer bird the frog are!
When he sit he stand almost,
When he walk he fly almost,
When he sing he cry almost,
And he ain't got no sense hardly,
He ain't got no tail hardly EITHER!
He sit on what he ain't got hardly!

(The "EITHER", should be shouted rather than sung.)


This terrible cow

There once was a man, a man who said, "How
Can I soften the heart of this terrible cow?
If I sit on this stile and continue to smile,
Can I soften the heart, the heart of this cow?"


Marguerite

Marguerite, come feed your black sow,
All on a misty morning.
Come get your dinner, sow, come, come, come,
Else you will get nary a crumb.


Well rung, Tom!

Well rung, Tom boy, well rung, Tom!
Ding, dong! Cuckoo! Well rung, Tom!
The owl and the cuckoo, the fool and his song;
Ding, dong! Cuckoo! Well rung, Tom!


When Jesus wept
(From the first Golden Ring album, if memory serves.)

When Jesus wept the falling tear
In mercy flowed beyond all bound
When Jesus groaned a trembling fear
Seized all the guilty world around.

% Rounds: ABC Notation
S:The Artful Codger

X:1
T:What a queer bird
M:3/4
L:1/8
K: G
g/g/g g3 d | g2 G2 z G/A/ |
w: What a queer bird the frog are! When he
BB BB B A/B/ | cc cc c B/c/ |
w: sit he stand al- most, When he walk he fly al-most, When he
dd dd d e/f/ | g G g G g f/e/ |
w: sing he cry al-most, And he ain't got no sense hard-ly, He
d G d G d G | g/g/ z/ A/ G/A/B/c/ d/e/f/g/ ||
w: ain't got no tail hard-ly EI-THER! He sit on what he ain't got hard-ly!

X:2
T:This terrible cow
M:3/4
L:1/4
K:Am
E | A B c | (B e3/2) d/ | c f e | A z
w: There once was a man,_ a man who said, "How
A/B/ | c B A | G E G | A>A G | A z
w: Can I sof-ten the heart of this ter-ri-ble cow?
A/B/ | c e f | (g/e/) c B | A d B | c z
w: If I sit on this stile_ and con-ti-nue to smile,
A/B/ | c B A | E z E | E E E | e2 ||
w: Can I sof-ten the heart, the heart of this cow?"

X:3
T:Marguerite
M:C
L:1/8
K:DDorian % no sharps/flats
D3 F E4 | D2 DF E2 C2 |
w: Mar-gue-rite, come feed your black sow
F2 FF G2 c2 | (A3 B/A/) G4 |
w: All on a mis-ty mor-__ning.
c2 Ac BA G2 | A2 F2 G4 |
w: Come get your din-ner, sow, come, come, come,
D2 E2 G2 G2 | DD D2 C4 |
w: Else you will get na-ry a crumb.

X:4
T:Well rung, Tom!
M:C|
L:1/8
K:A
FE EA | AB A z |
w: Well rung, Tom boy, well rung, Tom!
DE z/ e/c | AE A z/E/ |
w: Ding, dong! Cuc-koo! Well rung, Tom! The
AB/B/ c/A/z/ A/ | ee/d/ c z |
w: owl and the cuc-koo, the fool and his song;
FE z3/2 e/ | c/AG/ A z |
w: Ding, dong! Cuc-koo! Well rung, Tom!

X:5
T:When Jesus wept
D:The Golden Ring
M:3/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=120
K:Gm
G | d2 c | (d/>e/ f) B | (d/>c/ B) A | G2
w: When Je-sus wept__ the fal-__ling tear
G | G2 F | (B A) G | G2 D | G2
w: In mer-cy flowed_ be-yond all bound
d | (g d) f | (B c) d | d2 d | d2
w: When Je-_sus groaned_ a trem-bling fear
B | (d/>c/ B) A | (B e) d | (B/>A/ G) F | G2 ||
w: Seized all__ the guil-_ty world__ a-round.

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