Though the above song has been touched on in two other threads and the text is in the DT, this is a specific request for the **melody** of the whole song, including the tune for the verse part.

Repeat: I need, not the words, but the tune!! All of it.

"Mother, May I Go Out to Swim (The Bathing Song)"'s complete melody has been unusually hard to find. The DT has two midis based on the Randolph collection. Neither has more than four lines repeated.

I have searched all the sheet music sites I know of, some ten or twelve of them, without finding the sheet music for this.

Recordings are basically children's records, none of which include the tune for the verse, or even the complete tune for the refrain. Same goes for internet sites -- the song always appears in a simplified version, except for the one dug up by Bruce Olson that's in the DT, and that includes no music.

Can anyone come up with the whole melody for this? (Sentimental note: my mother used to sing it. But never the verses.)

Thanks, Bob